On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 12:04:26PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 09:57:40AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 06:11:24PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > > > > > 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? > > I want to apply the regulator driver so I stop being sent this patch > series which will help keep my backlog more manageable. > > > 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.) > > The whole reason the driver is in the staging tree is that Mauro has a > requirement to do things in a way that preserves history and so won't > send any non-incremental patches. Ok, should we wait until after 5.12-rc1 is out then? thanks, greg k-h
