On Tue, 27 Jul 2021 15:59:55 +0100 Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 04:48:53PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > Since these patches are now all that remains, it would be nice to > > merge it all through Andrew's Linux-mm tree, which is already based > > on top of linux-next. > > Is it? the -mm tree is structured as <90% of stuff> linux-next.patch <the other 10% of stuff> So things like Arnd's series which have a dependency on linux-next material get added to the "other 10%" and are merged behind the linux-next material and all is good. If possible I'll queue things ahead of linux-next.patch. Those few things which have dependencies on linux-next material get sent to Linus after the required linux-next material is merged into mainline.