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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>

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Jakub Kicinski and committed by
Paolo Abeni
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Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst
··· 311 311 Posting as one thread is discouraged because it confuses patchwork 312 312 (as of patchwork 2.2.2). 313 313 314 + Co-posting selftests 315 + -------------------- 316 + 317 + Selftests should be part of the same series as the code changes. 318 + Specifically for fixes both code change and related test should go into 319 + the same tree (the tests may lack a Fixes tag, which is expected). 320 + Mixing code changes and test changes in a single commit is discouraged. 321 + 314 322 Preparing changes 315 323 ----------------- 316 324