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Date:	Tue, 3 Nov 2015 15:25:25 +0000
From:	Loganaden Velvindron <loganaden@...il.com>
To:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: nothing other than BUG fixes please

On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 4:10 AM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
>
>
> If it's not a bug fix, I really don't want to see it submitted at
> this time.  No exceptions.
>
> Things will stay this way until some short period after the merge
> window opens and I open up net-next and patchwork to new feature
> patches and cleanups.
>
> Anyone violating this will not even get an email reply from me,
> I will simply toss your submission from patchwork silently.  It's
> simply too much pointless work for me to keep reminding people
> what I explicitly state on the list about the state of the trees
> we develop under.
>
> The best part is this will only punish the people who don't pay
> attention and just blindly come post patches here when it's convenient
> for them to submit patches, rather than actually reading the list and
> making an effort to participate in development properly.


Do small "security" patches that prevent resource leakage count as bugfixes ?

e.g:
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/537519/


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