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List:       e1000-devel
Subject:    Re: [E1000-devel] Questions about merging commits to kernel
From:       "Fujinaka, Todd" <todd.fujinaka () intel ! com>
Date:       2018-01-12 16:25:15
Message-ID: 9B4A1B1917080E46B64F07F2989DADD6984648A8 () ORSMSX110 ! amr ! corp ! intel ! com
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All our work goes into the newer kernels. When is the question, and we're always \
submitting to mainline and do our development and test there.

As for backports, it was suggested to me that I tell you to go to the netdev mailing \
list and ask Dave Miller to submit it to stable. From there the individual stable \
tree maintainers can pull it.

Netdev has rules and is a very high volume mailing list and so I also strongly \
suggest that you do some research before you post to that list.

Todd Fujinaka
Software Application Engineer
Datacenter Engineering Group
Intel Corporation
todd.fujinaka@intel.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Pavlos Parissis [mailto:pavlos.parissis@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2018 2:19 PM
To: Fujinaka, Todd <todd.fujinaka@intel.com>; e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] Questions about merging commits to kernel

On 11/01/2018 10:40 μμ, Fujinaka, Todd wrote:
> No, not the i40e driver, the maintainer of stable kernels. Start here: 
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/linux/MAINTAINERS
> 

I thought you meant the maintainer of the driver. As far as I know and learned by \
reading various kernel mailing lists the process goes like this:

The maintainer of a subsystem (netdev for instance) receives commits from developers \
working on the subsystem and he is one of the main persons to request inclusion of \
commits to stable trees. The individual developers can also request inclusion. If \
those commits don't apply cleanly on stable kernels then either the commiter or \
maintainer has to backport those commits.

I only asked the question in my effort to find out if kernel version 4.9 will receive \
fixes that has been mentioned here for i40e driver.

Thanks for getting back to me,
Pavlos

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