From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: epasheva@sierrawireless.com
Cc: dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net, rfiler@sierrawireless.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: question re: net-2.6 and net-next-2.6 trees re: patch submission
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:01:45 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100430.190145.45137187.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1272675194.21110.9.camel@Linuxdev3>
From: Elina Pasheva <epasheva@sierrawireless.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:53:14 -0700
> If I submit a new driver to net-2.6 tree (e.g. sierra_net driver that
> was applied to net-2.6 tree) where do I submit subsequent patches for
> that driver - net-2.6 tree or net-next-2.6 tree?
It depends upon the severity of the fix.
At this stage in the game on the most serious fixes are going
in, fixes for things that cause crashes and the like. However
since a new driver we might be a little bit more lenient since
changes to a new driver can harm less people.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-01 2:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-01 0:53 question re: net-2.6 and net-next-2.6 trees re: patch submission Elina Pasheva
2010-05-01 2:01 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-05-01 5:01 ` Elina Pasheva
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