On Wednesday 13 February 2013 10:08 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 06:07:12PM +0530, Vineet Gupta wrote: >> On Monday 11 February 2013 02:11 PM, Vineet Gupta wrote: >>> Hi Greg, >>> >>> Here's an update to arc-uart driver given Grant's recent review comments. >>> As discussed in the thread, can you consider this a bug fix and apply to >>> tty-next for 3.9. If you don't, please let me know as the corresponding DT file >>> change would have to be to be seperately applied to arch/arc/boot/*. >>> >>> Patch is Based off linux-next of today. >>> >>> Thx, >>> -Vineet >>> >>> Vineet Gupta (1): >>> serial/arc-uart: Miscll DT related updates (Grant's review comments) >>> >>> .../devicetree/bindings/tty/serial/arc-uart.txt | 4 ++-- >>> drivers/tty/serial/arc_uart.c | 10 ++++------ >>> 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) >>> >> Greg, I'm assuming this won't make into tty until 3.9-rc1 and hence I need to drop >> the platform patch from arc-next. > I've taken this now, it will be sent to Linus for 3.9-rc1. Thanks greg. I understand the tree closing rules' purpose, to let things stabilize ahead of merge window - both from mechanical conflicts perspective as well as runtime conflicts. However I'm slightly confused here about the process, specially as a n00b maintainer and was hoping you could clarify it. Your announcement of Feb 9th said >With the release of the 3.8-rc7 kernel, I think it's time to close the >TTY/serial tree for new features / cleanups for 3.9. So I'm closing my >tree, and will only be applying obvious bugfixes or regressions to it >until 3.9-rc1 comes out. So a bug fix sent on say Feb 11th would have been be applied to your tree to end up in 3.9 merge-window pull to Linus- correct or no ? So in that sense, since Arnd/Grant are deeming this patch as bug fix, shouldn't it make into 3.9 merge-window merge. So maybe, it's the criticality of the bug which warrants that. Please note that I'm just trying to understand the process here and not arguing about patch itself. >You can keep sending me patches for the tree that don't fit the "bugfix" >category, but note that I'll be storing them away to wait for 3.9-rc1 >comes out, which might be a few weeks, so please be patient. And once 3.9-rc1 hits, everything becomes 3.10 merge material anyways except for bug fixes. TIA, -Vineet -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
