docs: netdev: add a note on selftest posting

We haven't had much discussion on the list about this, but
a handful of people have been confused about rules on
posting selftests for fixes, lately. I tend to post fixes
with their respective selftests in the same series.
There are tradeoffs around size of the net tree and conflicts
but so far it hasn't been a major issue.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250306180533.1864075-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst b/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst
index e497729525d5b076470e35551c53221430c80f94..1ac62dc3a66f6265507a4b76f30f6c92804d058b 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst
@@ -311,6 +311,14 @@ to the mailing list, e.g.::
 Posting as one thread is discouraged because it confuses patchwork
 (as of patchwork 2.2.2).
 
+Co-posting selftests
+--------------------
+
+Selftests should be part of the same series as the code changes.
+Specifically for fixes both code change and related test should go into
+the same tree (the tests may lack a Fixes tag, which is expected).
+Mixing code changes and test changes in a single commit is discouraged.
+
 Preparing changes
 -----------------