Re: About chipidea tree

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On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 01:16:04PM +0200, Alexander Shishkin wrote:
> Peter Chen <peter.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 02:47:34PM +0100, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
> >> On 02/26/2013 02:25 PM, Alexander Shishkin wrote:
> >> > Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >> > 
> >> >> On 02/26/2013 11:56 AM, Alexander Shishkin wrote:
> >> >>> Peter Chen <peter.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >> >>>
> >> >>>> Hi Alex,
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Hi,
> >> >>>
> >> >>>> Do we have a chipidea repo which is queued for mainline?
> >> >>>> We have several patchsets for chipidea these monthes, I
> >> >>>> don't know their status. For me, I would like based
> >> >>>> on your tree if it exists.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> I thought about it, but then it seems like having a separate branch is
> >> >>> bound to be confusing to most people. I'd much rather prefer everything
> >> >>> go to usb-next, and this is my current plan. Since Greg will start
> >> >>> applying new stuff to usb-next after -rc1 is tagged, I'll send my
> >> >>> current stash of patches for inclusion then. If your patchset, for
> >> >>
> >> >> Can we have a look at your queued patches?
> >> > 
> >> > Sure,
> >> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-usb&m=135902434508839
> >> > 
> >> >>> example, has conflicts with my stuff that's not merged, I'll try to take
> >> >>> care of resolving the conflicts and submit everything to Greg. In other
> >> >>> words, it should be always ok to base your chipidea patchsets on
> >> >>> usb-next.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Let me know if this sounds reasonable to you.
> >> >>
> >> >> Michael has already done that work (some S-o-b form Michael are missing)
> >> >> and rebased Sascha's and Peter's patches to current linus/master, see
> >> >> this tree :
> >> >>
> >> >> http://git.pengutronix.de/?p=mgr/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/chipidea-for-v3.10
> >> > 
> >> > Taking a quick look, quite some of those patches are not ready for
> >> > inclusion yet. So if the question is, do we need a -next tree for all
> >> > the chipidea patchsets floating around, it might be a good thing. But
> >> > it's not what Peter was asking in the first place.
> >> 
> >> I suggest that we have a branch that holds all chipidea patches that are
> >> ready for mainline. Otherwise it's really hard to code any new features
> >
> > I agree.
> >
> > Alex, you can have a repo at github or any other places which is based
> > on usb-next, and add it to MAINTAINERS. We can develop the new feature
> > based on your repo. Greg can pull it directly if he agrees or you can send
> > your queued patchset before every merge windows.
> 
> Ok, let's try this. I have a linux-ci repo on github, might as well do
> something useful with it [1], [2]. Currently, the branch called
> "ci-for-greg" is where I stack patches that I'm planning to be sending
> (via email) to Greg when the time is right. The "policy" is such that
> it'll be rebased on top of Greg's usb-next and probably often, so no
> fast forwards. Also patches may be dropped from it if necessary. Since
> the branch is not for pulling, the "no rebase" rule doesn't apply.
> 
> If you have comments/suggestions/etc for a patch that is in this branch,
> please reply to the email with that patch on the mailing list and not
> via github infrastructure.
> 
> Sounds reasonable?

Agree

> 
> I'm now scouting my inbox for more candidates for this branch. Please
> don't re-send the patches that have already been sent, unless you have
> new versions of those, I have them all. Do send new versions, though.
> 
> [1] git://github.com/virtuoso/linux-ci.git ci-for-greg
> [2] https://github.com/virtuoso/linux-ci/commits/ci-for-greg
> 
> Regards,
> --
> Alex
> 

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Best Regards,
Peter Chen

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