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[195.231.44.239]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ffacd0b85a97d-47fd458bb4esm42401998f8f.30.2026.08.04.06.08.01 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 04 Aug 2026 06:08:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <37153ad1-5c96-49fc-adee-2a7678414428@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2026 15:08:01 +0200 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 00/15] pull request for net-next: batman-adv 2026-07-28 To: Sven Eckelmann , Simon Wunderlich , netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: "David S. Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Simon Horman , b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org References: <20260728133918.643267-1-sw@simonwunderlich.de> <7d73cd74-b040-4a3d-9d78-4ad8fc0a01f4@redhat.com> <5248054.31r3eYUQgx@sven-desktop> Content-Language: en-US From: Paolo Abeni In-Reply-To: <5248054.31r3eYUQgx@sven-desktop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 8/4/26 12:38 PM, Sven Eckelmann wrote: > On Tuesday, 4 August 2026 12:19:13 CEST Paolo Abeni wrote: >> On 7/28/26 3:39 PM, Simon Wunderlich wrote: >>> Dear net maintainers, >>> >>> here is a minor bugfix/cleanup pull request of batman-adv to go into net-next. >> >> Note that it's preferred to avoid fixes and stable tags for changes >> targeting the net-next tree. If the fixes are really minor, both could >> possibly safely dropped. If there is some real problem behind, such >> changes should instead target the net tree. >> >> Can you easily rebase your tree and adjust the PR vs the above? > > I have a different statement from Linus: > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wjt1NiKOdyAMz_DT7NmZ++SizPOhRSi492ukdTnpDzHQw@mail.gmail.com/T/#u > > This is why we started to not send out net.git fixes PRs for things which > aren't highly critical or for Linus' "just merged for this release commits" > late in the development process. I actually think netdev preference is consistent with Linus'ask: move the "fixlet" to net-next. The additional twist is the ask to drop the stable and fixes tag (otherwise stable will be flooded, too). PR are a bit apart from plain series, hence my initial questions WRT how problematic would be stripping such tags and how impactful are actually the things addressed in the first 6 patches. /P