> +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.
Andrew
