Re: [PATCH] serial/arc-uart: Urgent DT related update

[Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com>]

On Wednesday 13 February 2013 10:08 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 06:07:12PM +0530, Vineet Gupta wrote:
>> On Monday 11 February 2013 02:11 PM, Vineet Gupta wrote:
>>> Hi Greg,
>>>
>>> Here's an update to arc-uart driver given Grant's recent review comments.
>>> As discussed in the thread, can you consider this a bug fix and apply to
>>> tty-next for 3.9. If you don't, please let me know as the corresponding DT file
>>> change would have to be to be seperately applied to arch/arc/boot/*.
>>>
>>> Patch is Based off linux-next of today.
>>>
>>> Thx,
>>> -Vineet
>>>
>>> Vineet Gupta (1):
>>>   serial/arc-uart: Miscll DT related updates (Grant's review comments)
>>>
>>>  .../devicetree/bindings/tty/serial/arc-uart.txt    |    4 ++--
>>>  drivers/tty/serial/arc_uart.c                      |   10 ++++------
>>>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>>>
>> Greg, I'm assuming this won't make into tty until 3.9-rc1 and hence I need to drop
>> the platform patch from arc-next.
> I've taken this now, it will be sent to Linus for 3.9-rc1.

Thanks greg. I understand the tree closing rules' purpose, to let things stabilize
ahead of merge window - both from mechanical conflicts perspective as well as
runtime conflicts. However I'm slightly confused here about the process, specially
as a n00b maintainer and was hoping you could clarify it.

Your announcement of Feb 9th said

>With the release of the 3.8-rc7 kernel, I think it's time to close the
>TTY/serial tree for new features / cleanups for 3.9.  So I'm closing my
>tree, and will only be applying obvious bugfixes or regressions to it
>until 3.9-rc1 comes out.

So a bug fix sent on say Feb 11th would have been be applied to your tree to end
up in 3.9 merge-window pull to Linus- correct or no ? So in that sense, since
Arnd/Grant are deeming this patch as bug fix, shouldn't it make into 3.9
merge-window merge. So maybe, it's the criticality of the bug which warrants
that.  Please note that I'm just trying to understand the process here and not
arguing about patch itself.

>You can keep sending me patches for the tree that don't fit the "bugfix"
>category, but note that I'll be storing them away to wait for 3.9-rc1
>comes out, which might be a few weeks, so please be patient.

And once 3.9-rc1 hits, everything becomes 3.10 merge material anyways except for
bug fixes.

TIA,
-Vineet