On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 10:08:16AM +0000, Lee Jones wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jan 2021, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 06:11:24PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 07:02:39PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 05:57:52PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > > > > > > > > Is there a branch we can pull from? > > > > > > > Once 0-day passes, you can pull from my staging-testing branch from > > > > staging.git on git.kernel.org if you want. Give it 24 hours to pass > > > > before it hits that location. > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > Should be out there now if you want to pull. > > > > > > Do you need a tag to pull from? > > > > > > It'd be nice but not essential. > > > > Why do you want/need this? Having these changes in your tree is good, > > but what about other coding style cleanups that I will end up applying > > over time before the 5.12-rc1 merge window opens? Are you wanting to > > take the moved driver in your tree, or something else? > > > > Traditionally moving drivers out of staging can be done 2 ways: > > - all happens in the staging tree, I take an ack from the > > subsystem maintainer that this is ok to do. > > - A new driver enters the "real" subsystem tree, and then I > > delete the driver in the staging tree. This doesn't preserve > > history as well (not at all), but can be easier for trees that > > move quickly (like networking.) > > > > Which ever works for you is fine with me, but relying on the code to > > stay "not touched" in my tree after you pull it almost never happens due > > to the number of drive-by coding style cleanups that end up in the > > staging tree every week. > > I would have expected the whole set to be merged as a set into a > single tree, placed on an immutable branch and a pull-request to be > sent out for the other maintainers to pull from (if they so wished). > > This would ensure development could continue on any/all of the > affected drivers/files. > > If it's not too late, I'd be more than happy to facilitate. Given these patches are already in my public tree, that might be a bit harder, why the huge work for this? Worst case, I just keep all of the patches that do not actually move the code in my tree, and then things can move after 5.12-rc1. thanks, greg k-h
