Re: [PATCH v6 0/7] RK3576 thermal sensor support, including OTP trim adjustments

From: "Heiko Stübner" <heiko@sntech.de>
To: Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@collabora.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>,
	Alexey Charkov <alchark@gmail.com>,
	Nicolas Frattaroli <nicolas.frattaroli@collabora.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
	Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>,
	Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com>, Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@kernel.org>,
	Conor Dooley <conor+dt@kernel.org>,
	Jonas Karlman <jonas@kwiboo.se>,
	kernel@collabora.com, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
	devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-rockchip@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Ye Zhang <ye.zhang@rock-chips.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/7] RK3576 thermal sensor support, including OTP trim adjustments
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2025 15:45:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2664626.Lt9SDvczpP@diego> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <iafobb7h4nphjcujm34gig6vwlzfveegwewpayehb4h3tayzgv@bxpdfmhf2hfa>

Am Donnerstag, 31. Juli 2025, 15:27:03 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit schrieb Sebastian Reichel:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2025 at 10:11:23AM +0200, Heiko Stübner wrote:
> > Right now we're in the middle of the merge-window though, so everything
> > I apply now, I'd need to rebase onto -rc1 in slightly more than a week,
> > invalidating all those nice commit hashes that end up in the "applied" mails.
> > 
> > So I'm struggling with myself on every merge window about that.
> 
> Your are not supposed to merge anything to your for-next branch
> during the merge window anyways. See first sentence of Stephen
> Rothwell's mails [0]:
>
> > Please do not add any v6.18 material to your linux-next included
> > branches until after v6.17-rc1 has been released.

The general idea is just merging but without updating the -next branch,
then after -rc1 rebase + do new -next.

But as you pointed out, this is all cumbersome and doesn't shave off much
from the amount of patches waiting, so as most of the time, I'll just wait
for -rc1 to start clean :-)

> 
> [0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250731133311.1a3e3867@canb.auug.org.au/
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> -- Sebastian
> 