Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Hidden commits from next (aka why maintainers hoard them in backpack)

[Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 02:31:23PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Sept 2025 at 14:27, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> >
> > > Just a friendly note, Laurent, I appreciate your work and I do not want
> > > to point that you committed it incorrectly. In the contrary - your
> > > commit is right, but your upstream maintainer stops you from including
> > > this in linux-next. My aim here is only to discuss and improve the process.
> >
> > I would be happy to have my tree included in linux-next. I'm worried
> > that the fact that the media subsystem cherry-picks my pull requests
> > instead of merging them would cause issues though. Am I worrying
> > needlessly, or is that a real issue ?
> 
> Stephen Rothwell will send you automated emails about duplicate
> commits being present in linux-next - one coming from your downstream
> and one rebased in your upstream maintainer's tree.

So the question is how to redirect Stephen's complaints to the person
who is responsible for the issue in the first place :-)

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart