On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 1:52 PM Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 09:52:48AM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote: > > ... > > > Fixes: d83cee3d2bb1 ("gpio: protect the pointer to gpio_chip in gpio_device with SRCU") > > I'm wondering if instead tons of fixes you can just fold the patches and rebase your tree. > > Yes, we still have time to let it soak in Linux Next, so Torvalds won't complain. > It will be much less burden to anybody who wants to backport this nice work. > No, I don't think so. Rebasing is reserved for really special cases when nothing else can be done. Fixes like that should be expected for a big rework like this. This is honestly a strange idea. And I don't think anyone should backport this work. It's simply way too big and touches too many places. Bart