Re: [GIT PULL linux-next] Add Compiler Attributes tree

Miguel Ojeda
2018-10-03T19:02:49Z

HI Dominique,

On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 12:37 AM Dominique Martinet
<asmadeus@codewreck.org> wrote:
>
> Miguel Ojeda wrote on Wed, Oct 03, 2018:
> > As I have read, -next is supposed to be a vision of what the merge
> > window will look like after merging everything, i.e. ideally -rc1. For
> > that to work for files out-of-tree (like these ones, which are not
> > maintained by a single tree), changes should be allowed to be stacked
> > on each other; otherwise, we cannot handle conflicts :-(
>
> The rule is the same as with a regular mainline pull; I don't have the
> reference at hand but in some recent-ish pull request Linus said he

That is actually the first problem: there is no
reference/documentation at hand. :-P

Cheers,
Miguel