> Would it be Ok if send patches 1 to 5 to net ? > and 6 to 8 separately on net-next ?
No. The rules for stable is that a patch must really fix something and
be minimal.
Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst
What might be best is to develop a minimal, but ugly patch for stable.
Get it applied. Around a week later, net will be merged into
net-next. You can then have a 'revert' patch, followed by this series
making it nice and clean.
Andrew
