docs: netdev: clarify handling of idle patches

Off-list pings are very bad, but unfortunately too common. Explicitly
state that, so that at least LLMs could learn it.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicolai Buchwitz <nb@tipi-net.de>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/38b75373f813354ad0ee8bfde12ae5a42e9a11b6.1784884817.git.pabeni@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Paolo Abeni 2026-07-24 11:24:04 +02:00 committed by Jakub Kicinski
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@ -210,6 +210,10 @@ landed - describe your best guess and ask if it's correct. For example::
I don't understand what the next steps are. Person X seems to be unhappy
with A, should I do B and repost the patches?
Don't reach out to maintainers or reviewers via private email and/or other
communications channels: all the discussion must remain public, and
requesting special attention is unfair towards the community, at best.
.. _Changes requested:
Changes requested