On Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 4:02 AM Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Oct 2020 16:01:22 +0200 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Are there other changes that depend on this? If not, I would
> > just wait until -rc1 and then either push the branch correctly or
> > rebase the patches on that first, to avoid pushing something that
> > did not see the necessary testing.
>
> If it is useful enough (or important enough), then put in in your
> linux-next included branch, but don't ask Linus to merge it until the
> second week of the merge window ... no worse than some other stuff I
> see :-(
By itself, it's a nice cleanup, but it doesn't provide any immediate
benefit over the previous state, while potentially introducing a
regression in one of the less tested architectures.
The question to me is really whether Nick has any pending work
that he would like to submit after this branch is merged into
mainline.
Arnd
