On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 01:00:41AM +0200, Miguel Ojeda wrote: > >> I am going to send a v5 of the entire series without these two > >> patches, based on -rc4 (or -next, which one do you prefer? I would say > >> these patches should be applied early in the -next branches, so that > >> everyone is ready for the change, given it "touches" every translation > >> unit). > > > > That's up to whomever takes these into their tree for linux-next > > inclusion. If you are about to break everything, then you might > > consider changing your patches so they do not do that :) > > > > Well, the series shouldn't break anything (famous last words :), even > if everyone includes those headers. So, in theory, they *could* be > applied anywhere, anytime; but given they are global changes... It doesn't matter the "order" in which global changes are added to linux-next. If you think it does, please work with the linux-next maintainer to properly place your tree in the correct "location". thanks, greg k-h