Re: severe regression in alx ethernet driver

From: David Miller
Date: Mon Nov 23 2015 - 11:16:17 EST


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

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