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dependency and > usually means users can be silently affected. We expressed it many > times and documented it in point 7 of [1] (although it does not need > any documenting because it is different subsystem - why would you ever > take arm64 stuff without acks/permission from its maintainers?) I frequently add impending series to my staging tree. This is done to see what breaks and what doesn't if I were to actually merge something. Being in staging does not imply that things subsequently go into scsi-queue. But obviously it does send the message that I am looking at merging patches from a given series in near future. My script tries to cherry-pick any commits from a series that are not already in linux-next and which look relevant for the code to build and run in a cross-compiled environment. The script is certainly not perfect, figuring out cross-tree dependencies is not at all trivial. And I certainly appreciate when submitters clearly indicate which patches need to go through which tree. In this particular case there isn't a dependency that would prevent me from building the code that I actually merge. But that isn't always the case. And I clearly need to be able to build and validate the patches I subsequently put in scsi-queue. I'll try to make my script more iterative and only backfill patches if the build fails. Hopefully that'll resolve the situation... -- Martin K. Petersen