From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-alma10-1.taild15c8.ts.net [100.103.45.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A871B36EAA4; Wed, 3 Jun 2026 20:13:01 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1780517582; cv=none; b=bi8bkpdIvL5um99v2LZFdOMOO3Nb5hBKvxPKSeYhDdabJABrtjSW5+EoKb9S6f6Y9QpKnf6qUI1DXKOvYBAXVaO6tuednkDwPC3uF2j3vhPpHoA5fVoijbCS4PdEQRU6d0DZpG2JstMxcLeKHqxZxVgBgKc8tOQE5aCWYWdWQng= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1780517582; c=relaxed/simple; bh=4+/OU53/6DRgcz/edi9bWr3r3BpBMEf3EXK6HlN6lf0=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=gCqVjsEeprfSfrTBD5gnWj6UOn8YhsMWVWsaaMmahwb4i/1FY0l4xIqkGmCjYVPAYdM3nEWKUA0c5hKHLG5sDmFv80/+Em3oK/Bw3drI46aP2724v+zoF1MMNgeIJpElSAPsy+E7AIgl9Ytos4nYN1bTvhYjoTTLRkZv6+PbxiM= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=DrWtfiYX; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="DrWtfiYX" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D699E1F00893; Wed, 3 Jun 2026 20:13:00 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kernel.org; s=k20260515; t=1780517581; bh=K+i1Df9kDuRQYRCGNe45rGQ4fhycJKRABdpgHeJsQ3E=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References; b=DrWtfiYXbxD8LvRhGspq1jE5xmfswNcODFItdabPAQsOuopeYhDiwUbPiIbUSzhyi 7O7JNSvll49Gcci/uFJRzSDhivH+ULbC5k2azczF85p9aGZsV07pcJ3jWEitpUXjcc nzhwMJ9z8XuH3FchXrlj+OURDXaK7MfTEgJIKRyM9ExIkpOrVQzNnk59lkgIp1XThf +9bQCFoj/6dM+pkOySd2t8sTk1Y8uLa2tSjFFAIBGYZdUUwz68/SqDTbdp9F9QAv2P 4Uw6AS/3NB50p7gEO69MT3gLnIqxtx/nVARnvfuzi2opLVOkJO0pfkBkKShzLom/sU aWxj/ZjDia3Lg== Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2026 13:13:00 -0700 From: Jakub Kicinski To: Andrew Lunn Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, edumazet@google.com, pabeni@redhat.com, andrew+netdev@lunn.ch, horms@kernel.org, johannes@sipsolutions.net, corbet@lwn.net, skhan@linuxfoundation.org, workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] docs: exclude driver and netdevsim bugs Message-ID: <20260603131300.42490f65@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20260603162943.2406080-1-kuba@kernel.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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.