On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 07:39:49PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > The usual trick is to have a branch with the shared patches and have > that pulled into every other tree that needs these, but make sure you never > rebase. In this case, you could have something like > > a) rtkit driver in a shared branch (private only) > b) thunderbolt driver based on branch a), merged through > thunderbolt/usb/pci tree (I don't know who is responsible here) > c) sart driver based on branch a), merged through soc tree > d) nvme driver based on branch c), merged through nvme tree > > since the commit hashes are all identical, each patch only shows up in > the git tree once, but you get a somewhat funny history. Given that the nvme driver is just addition of new code I'm perfectly fine with sending it through whatever tree is most convenient.
