On Wed, Apr 06, 2022 at 10:06:33AM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote: > Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Tue, 05 Apr 2022 10:16:58 +0300 Kalle Valo wrote: > >> Sure, that would technically work. But I just think it's cleaner to use > >> -rc1 (or later) as the baseline for an immutable branch. If the baseline > >> is an arbitrary commit somewhere within merge windows commits, it's more > >> work for everyone to verify the branch is suitable. > >> > >> Also in general I would also prefer to base -next trees to -rc1 or newer > >> to make the bisect cleaner. The less we need to test kernels from the > >> merge window (ie. commits after the final release and before -rc1) the > >> better. > >> > >> But this is just a small wish from me, I fully understand that it might > >> be too much changes to your process. Wanted to point out this anyway. > > > > Forwarded! > > Awesome, thank you Jakub! > > Greg, I now created an immutable branch for moving wfx from > drivers/staging to drivers/net/wireless/silabs: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next.git wfx-move-out-of-staging > > The baseline for this branch is v5.18-rc1. If you think the branch is > ok, please pull it to staging-next and let me know. I can then pull the > branch to wireless-next and the transition should be complete. And do > let me know if there are any problems. Looks great to me! I've pulled it into staging-next now. And will not take any more patches to the driver (some happened before the merge but git handled the move just fine.) thanks! greg k-h
