Re: [PATCH wireless] wifi: rtw89: Un-embed dummy device

[Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>]

On Thu, May 09, 2024 at 12:48:21PM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com> writes:
> 
> >> Out of curiosity, why don't you rebase your tree to net-next/linux-next
> >> frequently?
> >
> > My tree goes to wireless-next, so I think it should be always based on
> > wireless-next. Once wirelss-next rebase (ff-merge) net-next, my tree will
> > have them also. 
> 
> The simple answer about updating to net-next frequently: it's
> complicated :)
> 
> The long answer is that the guidance from Linus is to avoid making
> unnecessary merges so we fast forward wireless-next only after it's
> pulled to net-next. And we can't rebase wireless-next due to downstream
> trees Ping's rtw tree, besides rebasing public git trees is evil anyway.

Thanks for the explanation!