Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] arm64/sve: Document our actual SVE syscall ABI

[Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>]

On Fri, Sep 02, 2022 at 07:57:15PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 02, 2022 at 07:22:20PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 05:24:59PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > > v3:
> > >  - Rebase onto v6.0-rc3.
> > > v2:
> > >  - Rebase onto v6.0-rc1.
> 
> > Please don't rebase beyond -rc1 unless it no longer applies cleanly. I
> > came back from holiday and I have two or three versions of all of your
> > patches in my inbox. It just adds to the clutter.
> 
> OK, sure.  It might help to advertise what you're looking for here - the
> whole thing with wanting everything based off -rc3 has never been clear
> to me, IIRC I figured it out from some off hand comment rather than
> actually knowing what you and Will want.  It's neither base off latest
> nor base off -rc1 which seem to be the more common policies.

Usually basing off -rc1 is sufficient unless the patches conflict with
something newer and we occasionally push for-next/core to even higher
-rcX. Of course, fixes for something in a late -rc should be based off
that version.

Both Will and I start queuing patches around -rc3 with the two weeks
before pretty much reviewing or waiting to see if there are any more
comments. I don't mind you basing your patches off -rc3 though in
general it's better for series aimed at the upcoming merging window to
be posted shortly after -rc1 to give them some more time on the list.
However, once posted, if there are no changes please don't repost them
for subsequent -rcX, it won't make any difference as we can just apply
the original series to whatever we base for-next/core off.

Thanks.

-- 
Catalin