On Sat, 2017-11-04 at 18:14 -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: > Hi all, > > Just a friendly email after catching up on patches this week, the > majority of those outstanding on the list have been merged into > target-pending/for-next. Please see below. > > For those who submitted patches, please have a look and let me know > if anything is else missing. Note there are two exceptions that have > been left out for now that I'll be following up with separately. > > Thus far it's all been either straight-forward bug-fixes, minor > cleanups, or small miscellaneous enhancements. AFAICT, nothing looks > particularly concerning. The concern would be you dumping a tree on the eve of a merge window, which you're presumably going to send to Linus in a week or so, when the last time you appeared was a fixes pull in 12 August, because it suggests this lot is just some randomly chosen selection to try to keep the tree alive. I really wouldn't do it like this: I know Linus doesn't care too much for SCSI stuff and if you're lucky he may be too busy yelling at Jens to notice, but if not, you'll find yourself on the receiving end of his ire and that will damage the reputation of your tree a lot. If the work of running the target tree has got too much, get a patch wrangler who can help with the process stuff you're completely lacking, like reviews and testing and long incubation in linux-next for exposure to 0day. I'm sure we can find several volunteers. James
