On Tue, Mar 11 2025 at 22:43, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > On Tue, 11 Mar 2025 02:02:40 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> There's presumably a better way of doing this, but it's really the >> first time it has happened in N years so it isn't obviously worth >> investing in setting something up. > > This is why we have shared stable branches. If the tip guys have all > those commits in a branch that they guarantee will not rebase (or be > rewritten), then you could fetch that branch and merge it into your > tree somewhere. tip timers/vdso is stable and won't be rebased. It might get delta fixes on top, but that should be not a problem. Andrew, feel free to pull that in. Thanks, tglx