From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-alma10-1.taild15c8.ts.net [100.103.45.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7B84141A919 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 2026 06:56:21 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1790232998; cv=none; b=YC1joaXriWww7fGaQ44BAjamD56/QXNmMhwz0XIn1lzYpGxEfsU519dyIF/0KyDHi9RU0GGtVpxs56Dp5SwsTM81FxPq2cryiaZblNZdEpxFxntKdcJeiF6w/tUNPbSGRcnju8X0qg9XwSid127B3q7BL4s5c/plItTVSuebI6M= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1790232998; c=relaxed/simple; bh=xV0ym+auP8VMn5/dPZan/qFMq//LUW+H8G8UMTgjo24=; h=Date:Message-ID:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=RL5xWKxcbfudBnbOicIyEgbOXmF4VT+DLg3VJGzflPHhu4RrtmpXgPkHbDKlnntBfUGqwTiATjaXOJWiYdpibA0VwD2GvibMPXRJ/kC8zAvNkjHIW084Tp0RtP5zgT2RhVEfDWJMf1vs6lEItkWlEXIig4DYrNudVeXV8z4cbng= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=Grs+r1O1; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="Grs+r1O1" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4286D1F000FF; Thu, 24 Sep 2026 06:56:19 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kernel.org; s=k20260515; t=1790232979; bh=xr4+Ib04ru2reqdWrM6Is4uQPAviZCT68ITyqOD6Ej8=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References; b=Grs+r1O1h5JyZzlDIj5Jsd9Dk6B3Quxp+IOarkzOsYsNrett+Wt7vv9cTP4GKX4ER ECXMmlLoWJCSMyMNCc2aVKMgJqivBp+FRscclEma30bUhtH/B37FUV8ldk3rKzvv38 XLwNu0EtsAoGBVJBGhlm9gu8mnNxb4vEgyM8+r010ePcij0fJ+t4D00MotUL0085wg A4RlIrLOhu9wQHYXrIrM6WyYYumPC2cqSrOvsAmSNNt9uJ5FFMdcp4E7CEaTvIpRUd bu/9BizRf/7aBr3pWMqRQkivOx7EV0jIZadwfKRD5yA0GEGO57pPxMdH3Uq9eFtDr8 NvHITiwBVDCbA== Received: from sofa.misterjones.org ([185.219.108.64] helo=lobster-girl.misterjones.org) by disco-boy.misterjones.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.98.2) (envelope-from ) id 1x9dNQ-0000000CsMd-2Ay1; Thu, 24 Sep 2026 06:56:16 +0000 Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2026 07:59:21 +0100 Message-ID: <877bkb3zjq.wl-maz@kernel.org> From: Marc Zyngier To: Matthias Goergens Cc: Oliver Upton , Fuad Tabba , Joey Gouly , Steffen Eiden , Suzuki K Poulose , Zenghui Yu , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: name the kvmarm/kvmarm next branch In-Reply-To: <20260924033536.3624334-1-matthias.goergens@gmail.com> References: <20260924033536.3624334-1-matthias.goergens@gmail.com> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.9 (Almost Unreal) SEMI-EPG/1.14.7 (Harue) FLIM-LB/1.14.9 (=?UTF-8?B?R29qxY0=?=) APEL-LB/10.8 EasyPG/1.0.0 Emacs/30.1 (aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: kvmarm@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI-EPG 1.14.7 - "Harue") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 185.219.108.64 X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: matthias.goergens@gmail.com, oupton@kernel.org, fuad.tabba@linux.dev, joey.gouly@arm.com, seiden@linux.ibm.com, suzuki.poulose@arm.com, yuzenghui@huawei.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: maz@kernel.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on disco-boy.misterjones.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false On Thu, 24 Sep 2026 04:35:36 +0100, Matthias Goergens wrote: > > The T: entry for KERNEL VIRTUAL MACHINE FOR ARM64 (KVM/arm64) names > kvmarm/kvmarm without a branch. The repository's HEAD (master, > 0225fd5e0a6a) is a commit from 2020-05-01 that mainline already > contains. linux-next pulls next from this repository (Next/Trees, > next-20260923), and on 2026-09-24 that branch carried work not yet in > mainline. Name the branch so the entry identifies where development > happens. But that's not reflecting the way we deal with this tree. No actual development happens on that branch, as it is solely for integration. Actually, no development happens in the kvmarm tree at all. > > Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst sends contributors to the > T: entry to find the tree to prepare patches against, so a branch-less > entry whose HEAD is already in mainline points them at the wrong tree. Again, this is not how we work. We explicitly discourage patches against -next. The only sane reference to base kvmarm patches on is a published upstream tag from Linus' tree. M. -- Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.