From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leon Romanovsky Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Shared pull requests (was Re: Workflow for i40iw patch submissions) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 19:21:40 +0300 Message-ID: <20170926162140.GF6816@mtr-leonro.local> References: <9DD61F30A802C4429A01CA4200E302A75B9FB085@fmsmsx116.amr.corp.intel.com> <1506179005.120853.67.camel@redhat.com> <20170925035910.GL25094@mtr-leonro.local> <5abacb7d-3e86-4e12-ce95-a8fe472a6a09@redhat.com> <20170925155749.GO25094@mtr-leonro.local> <7c01cef3-0471-8339-3498-1d9ec4f8a9d3@redhat.com> <20170926051349.GA1230@mtr-leonro.local> <20170926065600.GA6816@mtr-leonro.local> <6fa41141-cae5-da51-94ef-afe5bdec22bd@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="E7i4zwmWs5DOuDSH" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6fa41141-cae5-da51-94ef-afe5bdec22bd-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Doug Ledford Cc: "Saleem, Shiraz" , "linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org --E7i4zwmWs5DOuDSH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 12:03:01PM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: <...> > >> He started to complain about empty merge commit with v4.13-rc1, and continued with explanations > >> about difference between back and forward merges. From my point of view, my intention to base > >> shared pull request on latest -rcX is exactly forward (good) merge, because it ensures that > >> all our future submissions for net/net-next/rdma-rc/rdma-next are completely in sync and > >> ready to go. > > This is why, when I submit a pull request for -rc, I also merge it into > for-next. It keeps this up to date as you say, without needing to pull > in all of the -rc, so it gives Linus an easier history to look at. It > does not, however, sync up the net side of things. > Doug, What is the bottom line for the bases for shared pull requests? Thanks --E7i4zwmWs5DOuDSH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEkhr/r4Op1/04yqaB5GN7iDZyWKcFAlnKfpMACgkQ5GN7iDZy WKc6lxAArBghVMb1DfNmmn6/dDW3YO6Z/kD9pHOMqbyRyt5isjE5mZHcKovmWYcT AdygGrhqFiD2buEsBE8IBOPbFigrDtFneKD2ueeQ2NaIc4CRIVPyjjUbeV4t9dTb ERTs/hG0u4CflWYJLb2C26yaV59unaqE9WmMgMMpCjjXpkYLmk8epoXKgn4rpZKH PD0hScMAPAwh7lSnalpBUkA3L/iXOM2OAkxkO9tFcY0W89b+NIkkSniELIuilTQv Ssg/Sjhr0NduwE10lUj/b7TR6y17ofi44rVXhyb9QsmSPQqzTMiOVmPPfxHeMncn 1M9JASljzAT8fVyyiZhEHIpC6D0x/g+zV4SHyofbTPnrIf62edeIm5yxSBCEAc+6 9RanzbqJ0JfkGrU4cx1D+BCVne6+iPZ9ztOF8KCt6nbWcLg3HJ3y4QCEUPGmgtmE oTGAqDSRQuPiuLzbz9nJXY4gvBbKAWtDAYh+YPinfOg3IfKhUkX1jESJ4fWdSIXe 3UNVEV3SuKOsDQ+h5FxCMKCnr3ZsY6hTg9c1dUN2PrNP5BgHaeAQNhTlwYw2kTjQ 16kn2Hv6tBNMaVRo4eI4uQTeF4CB4Re9+91x3pN3Apk3nHifU46GZ1ca/d60U/pf 0rSj8Klg1o9kJRA0OSykvrDUCX5C4XKms39HZr1/6M1ks/Ig0+c= =CnZz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --E7i4zwmWs5DOuDSH-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html