Re: [PATCH net-next] docs: exclude driver and netdevsim bugs

[Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>]

On Wed, 3 Jun 2026 21:25:02 +0200 Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > +Additionally, netdev does not consider bugs to be ``net``-worthy
> > +if they fulfill **all** of the following criteria:
> > + - bug is in a hardware device driver;
> > + - bug is either a missing error handling or is part of the error handling flow;
> > + - bug was discovered by a static analysis / AI tool;
> > + - bug was triggered/observed only with kernel changes or fault injection.
> > +Fixes for such bugs should default to ``net-next`` and should **not** contain
> > +a Fixes tag. Networking or driver maintainers may redirect such fixes to ``net``
> > +at their discretion if they consider the condition to be relevant enough.  
> 
> I would also stress what the stable rules say:
> 
> 	It must either fix a real bug that bothers people or ...
> 
> Many of the bug fixes we are currently getting don't meet this
> criteria, so are net-next material.

I decided to leave that out in the end because it's a bit too open
to interpretation for my mind.