On Wed, 3 Jun 2026 21:25:02 +0200 Andrew Lunn wrote: > > +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.
I decided to leave that out in the end because it's a bit too open to interpretation for my mind.
