On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 04:55:20PM +0000, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 at 16:07, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 03:23:00PM +0000, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > > > Yes, of course I object to it. > > I can not apply a patch to the stable trees that are not in Linus's tree > > first. So there's nothing I can do here with this. > > Ok, we can wait until my patch propagates into Linus' tree, but I > would have thought it would be a waste of your time to apply a patch > which is waiting to be inevitably superseded by a different one. Your patch has to apply on top of the existing one, so there's not an issue here. And might as well fix it now, as I can never count on a "future" patch getting merged. > I can > see there are 238 PRs at Linus' tree on github and I am very glad that > I looked into one of them --- it contained a long comment explaining > that I should NOT do what I was just about to do, i.e. make a PR > against Linus' tree! :) We do not do kernel development on github :) thanks, greg k-h
