linux-kernel - Re: severe regression in alx ethernet driver

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Message-Id: <20151123.111610.2054291192576855643.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 23 Nov 2015 11:16:10 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ldap.tester@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: severe regression in alx ethernet driver

From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 11:15:30 -0500 (EST)

> From: Ldap Tester <ldap.tester@...il.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.
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