Lee,
On Tue, Feb 15 2022 at 15:42, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2022, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
>> Either way it remains bisect-able since each driver is changed
>> individually. There is no need to merge them in one go but since it is
>> that small it probably makes sense. But I don't do the logistics here.
>
> Okay, this is what I was asking.
>
> So there aren't any hard dependencies between the driver changes?
>
> Only the drivers are dependent on the API.
Correct.
> So, if we choose to do so, we can merge the API and then subsequently
> add the users one by one into their respective subsystem, in any
> order. This would save on creating an immutable topic branch which we
> all pull from.
>
> What is your preference Thomas?
I suggest doing it the following way:
1) I apply 1/7 on top of -rc5 and tag it
2) Driver maintainers who want to merge via their trees pull that tag
apply the relevant driver changes
3) I collect the leftovers and merge them via irq/core
Does that make sense?
Thanks,
tglx
