From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pb0-f54.google.com ([209.85.160.54]:43752 "EHLO mail-pb0-f54.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753898Ab3JBR7r (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Oct 2013 13:59:47 -0400 Received: by mail-pb0-f54.google.com with SMTP id ro12so1229260pbb.13 for ; Wed, 02 Oct 2013 10:59:47 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 10:59:37 -0700 From: Guenter Roeck To: linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org Cc: Rob Landley , Russell King , Wim Van Sebroeck , Johannes Thumshirn , Dinh Nguyen , Pavel Machek , Jamie Iles , Jonas Jensen , John Crispin , Xianglong Du , Barry Song , Tony Lindgren , Nicolas Ferre , Felipe Balbi Subject: New watchdog and watchdog-next branches to augment the existing ones Message-ID: <20131002175937.GA4811@roeck-us.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-watchdog-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org Hi all, to support Wim in his efforts to maintain the watchdog subsystem, I created two new branches in my repository at kernel.org git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/linux-staging.git The two branches are watchdog for watchdog patches I believe should be applied to the current upstream kernel watchdog-next for patches I believe are ready to be pushed upstream in the next commit window. Both branches may and will be rebased from time to time as I see fit. watchdog will in general be based on a recent upstream tag, and watchdog-next will be based on watchdog. As of today, the watchdog branch is based on v3.12-rc3. The new branches are not supposed to replace Wim's repository, but to augment it. It enables me to run my own automated build tests (see http://server.roeck-us.net:8010/builders for current build results), and it will hopefully trigger builds by Fengguang's build robots with the various patches applied. I also set up patchwork to track the watchdog mailing lists at http://server.roeck-us.net/project/linux-watchdog/list/. This is mostly for myself to ensure that patches don't get lost, but it is accessible for others as well. I hope this will help Wim in deciding if and when to push patches upstream; at the very least it will provide additional test coverage. Note that I don't plan to add the watchdog-next branch to linux-next, as the decision if and when to push patches upstream is up to Wim to make. Thanks, Guenter --- P.s.: If you are on the Cc: list, it is most likely because you signed off at least one of the patches in one of the branches.