Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: adjust MELLANOX ETHERNET INNOVA DRIVERS to TLS support removal

[Leon Romanovsky]

On Wed, Jun 01, 2022 at 12:26:18PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Jun 2022 21:08:06 +0300 Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 01, 2022 at 10:30:39AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > > > Thanks, we will submit it once net-next will be open.  
> > > 
> > > It should go via net FWIW.  
> > 
> > I'm slightly confused here.
> > 
> > According to net policy, the patches that goes there should have Fixes
> > line, but Fixes lines are added for bugs [1].
> > 
> > This forgotten line in MAINTAINERS doesn't cause to any harm to
> > users/developers.
> 
> Fair, maybe I worded it too strongly. I should have said something like
> "FWIW it's okay for MAINTAINERS updates to go via net".
> 
> Documentation/ patches and MAINTAINERS are special, they can go into
> net without a Fixes tag so that changes to get_maintainer output and
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ propagate quickly.

Awesome, thanks

> 
> > So when should I put Fixes line in netdev?
> > 
> > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20211208070842.0ace6747@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
>