On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 05:38:03PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 1:16 PM Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 09, 2021 at 11:07:33AM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > > > On Saturday, January 9, 2021, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > > > Could you please let us know if you're fine with this patch getting > > > > merged in v5.12 through the linux-media tree ? The cover letter contains > > > > additional details (in a nutshell, this is a cross-tree series and we > > > > would like to avoid topic branches if possible). > > > > > > There is already a tag by Petr. > > > > I saw that, but looking at the corresponding e-mail, there was no clear > > acknowledgement that we could merge this patch through a different tree. > > Fair point. > > One question though, what so wrong with topic branches. They're not wrong, they just add more complexity as all maintainers involved would need to create a topic branch based on v5.11-rc1 and merge it in their respective tree. It's certainly doable, but when there's no risk of conflict, merging the whole series through a single tree is just easier. -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart
