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 53EEE2EF653; Wed, 3 Jun 2026 16:29:54 +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=1780504195; cv=none; b=of0Tz6oSvTEkVAyYebV//RyJi0W4dTmbLh2pwfxXuTTg5bZc8yaqoSW4lf1xxyArIpFV56wNWRZxeL2oiQjXJewKt/THkqmHv4Y2j5sBjYUkP7HLH+DD4D/RBUB7iNOX6PmHiHOaa5VmOoQMT/gO3HBNYVhxJwKkN31UJ3qIbPU= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1780504195; c=relaxed/simple; bh=6uKG0pM6J8L5AeSbQ1InCVY0q5DwTjDEIszIKL4VgQ0=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-ID:MIME-Version; b=J0VGbaBKQXq4rvhHePngcqJTr2T6I0061Ku/MGxBIrNfrXEz1B/VxmVDjXUOQZsm0aovjAlPLbMoi6pP1zXlVcYBX81sPZT+Nc6y/hEbNnw+iSxIi/BMFQjIrjeRMqCDbNVJFOdRh4DVAIcYg56hHX6R8KVx8FoVv5F6ukNeuIg= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=cex9yb8L; 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="cex9yb8L" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7ADE11F00893; Wed, 3 Jun 2026 16:29:53 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kernel.org; s=k20260515; t=1780504194; bh=qWc4Pg9S5Yrbzz6mVTDrVjWosTqWIsAjK4BlyMO77W0=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date; b=cex9yb8LHXPviBXRPHWsU96LYwqt0JeCU3Mh4GxR0LogNLs7p7ViLv6ngz1E5fiMF HbXo5CBlJy+gEvtNcespaUEYW77W3dcF3xVwWG3r5kbFgsl/p6NDfMhtrmg1PKZ3mO cQHcmcdgjqsJUJnJ7h1beM/ea21D3DW7/bd9zffU2W9+gxB6qYqXK57/IScyDUDH2S AKGU61pgESQe4xA2y9D0AhXECsxR8GXfaO02J6KdfOmlfDbwPr/SjIx53+0yEVb3lF y1lUEw8c9FdJ54mvO6hN0IOfYEkRDTf+Db/lNN7hD9ZEJaZAYFj09KgF3RAL2FaTYK s61XvwVIrDw4Q== From: Jakub Kicinski To: davem@davemloft.net Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, edumazet@google.com, pabeni@redhat.com, andrew+netdev@lunn.ch, horms@kernel.org, johannes@sipsolutions.net, Jakub Kicinski , corbet@lwn.net, skhan@linuxfoundation.org, workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH net-next] docs: exclude driver and netdevsim bugs Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2026 09:29:43 -0700 Message-ID: <20260603162943.2406080-1-kuba@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.54.0 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Initial wave of AI-generated fixes was mostly for core and protocols we care about. But the number of irrelevant driver fixes is slowly increasing. Add a section of explicit exclusions to our maintainer profile. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski --- CC: corbet@lwn.net CC: skhan@linuxfoundation.org CC: workflows@vger.kernel.org CC: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org --- Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst b/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst index ec7b9aa2877f..cc4b5fa3b5c1 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst @@ -272,6 +272,34 @@ the case today. Please follow the standard stable rules in :ref:`Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst `, and make sure you include appropriate Fixes tags! +Bug fixes +~~~~~~~~~ + +Unless explicitly excluded all bug fixes should be targeting the ``net`` +tree and contain an appropriate Fixes tag. + +Obvious exclusions: + + - fixes for bugs which only exist in ``net-next`` should target ``net-next`` + (please still include the Fixes tag in the commit message) + - bugs which cannot be reached, e.g. in code paths not executed given + current in-tree callers + - fixes for compiler warnings and typos + +Fixes for selftests and selftest-related infrastructure (most notably +including the ``netdevsim`` driver) are only considered ``net``-worthy +if they substantially reduce the flakiness of the test. + +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. + Security fixes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- 2.54.0