On Tue, 24 Aug 2021 at 17:18, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 07:04:31PM +0300, Pavel Skripkin wrote: > > On 8/24/21 6:59 PM, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote: > > > On Tuesday, August 24, 2021 5:43:26 PM CEST Pavel Skripkin wrote: > > > > On 8/24/21 6:39 PM, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote: > > > > > Oh, I know where it comes from... :) > > > > > > It's a patch of mine that is in the queue, waiting to be > > > > reviewed and applied. > > > > > Please see: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210819221241.31987-1-fmdefrancesco@xxxxxxxxx/ > > > > > oh.... there are _a lot_ of pending changes :) > > > > > > > > I guess, we need smth like public-mirror with already reviewed and > > > > working changes > > > > > > It's becoming a serious problem. A lot of times I see people who is asked to > > > rebase and resend, not because they forget to fetch the current tree, instead > > > because the tree changes as soon as Greg start to apply the first patches in the > > > queue and the other patches at the end of the queue cannot be applied. > > > > > > Anyway,I understand that Greg cannot apply a patch at a time soon after > > > submission but in the while the queue grows larger and larger. > > > > > > > > > It can be easily fixed. We need public fork somewhere (github, > > git.kernel.org ...) and we should ask Greg to add remote-branch to his tree. > > No, not going to happen, sorry. I will catch up with patches when I get > the chance and then all will be fine. This is highly unusual that there > are loads of people all working on the same staging driver. No idea why > everyone jumped on this single one... > > relax, there is no rush here... > > greg k-h Yeah I'm with Greg on this one - we don't need github forks etc, my strategy has thus far been to just wait for staging-testing to coalesce into a more up-to-date state and then work on top of that as needed. Extra forks just introduce more complexity and more to watch + keep track of in my opinion, as the e-mails still keep flowing in anyway :-) Regards, Phil
