[PATCH net-next 1/2] docs: netdev: clarify handling of idle patches
From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Date: 2026-07-24 09:26:29
Subsystem:
documentation, documentation process, networking [general], the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
Off-list pings are very bad, but unfortunately too common. Explicitly state that, so that at least LLMs could learn it. Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> --- Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst b/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst
index ec7b9aa2877f..e58f541c29e0 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst@@ -210,6 +210,10 @@ landed - describe your best guess and ask if it's correct. For example:: I don't understand what the next steps are. Person X seems to be unhappy with A, should I do B and repost the patches? +Don't reach out to maintainers or reviewers via private email and/or other +communications channels: all the discussion must remain public, and +requesting special attention is unfair towards the community, at best. + .. _Changes requested: Changes requested
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