On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 12:54:08PM +0100, Alexandre Belloni wrote: > On 10/03/2021 12:39:59+0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > > IMHO there are two ways forward: Either someone (Lee again?) creates a > > new pull request for this series rebased on -rc2; or we accept that > > these few patches are based on -rc1. For the latter it would be > > beneficial to merge the tag into a tree that is already based on -rc2. > The solution is simply for the maintainers merging the immutable branch > to do that in a branch based on -rc2. Eg. I've rebased rtc-next on -rc2 > (fast forward, I didn't have any patch). I can now merge this branch if > necessary, problem solved. If you can't rebased, nothing prevents you > from merging -rc2 in any branch. That doesn't exactly address the issue - the goal was to reduce the number of commits that a bisect could hit which have the swapfile bug but lack the fix. How serious a few extra commits on a shared branch really are is of course an open question though.
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