Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Nov 2015 11:07:39 -0500 | From | Jarod Wilson <> | Subject | Re: severe regression in alx ethernet driver |
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On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 11:16:10AM -0500, David Miller wrote: > From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> > Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 11:15:30 -0500 (EST) > > > From: Ldap Tester <ldap.tester@gmail.com> > > Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 11:00:08 -0300 > > > >> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70761 > > > > Patches sitting in a bugzilla entry will simply rot. > > > > For upstream inclusion someone must formally submit them to the netdev > > mailing list, with proper commit message, signoffs, etc. and then the > > patch must be fully reviewed by the community. > > > > Only then will it be applied and make it upstream. > > And amusingly, the final comment in that bugzilla is someone asking > the patch author to do exactly this.
They do at least have a signed-off-by in the patches attached to the bug, so I'm working on touching up the descriptions and formatting, regression testing them on my laptop that has an alx-driven E2200 in it (which isn't affected by this bug), and then I can ship them up for proper review.
-- Jarod Wilson jarod@redhat.com
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