Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: name the livepatching for-next branch

[Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>]

On Sat 2026-09-26 13:52:19, Matthias Goergens wrote:
> The T: entry for LIVE PATCHING names livepatching/livepatching without a
> branch.  The repository's HEAD points to branch master, which mainline
> already contains.  linux-next merges the for-next branch of this
> repository (Next/Trees).  Name that branch in the entry.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthias Goergens <matthias.goergens@gmail.com>
> ---
> This is part of a cleanup of all T: entries whose repository HEAD is
> not where development happens: one patch per repository, sent in small
> batches.  The plan is at [1], and why it goes out in batches at [2].
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260924033200.3615554-1-matthias.goergens@gmail.com/
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260924101844.2403008-1-matthias.goergens@gmail.com/

It seems that the motivation is that "master" is outdated in various
projects.

But I maintain livepatching/livepatching.git the following way:

  + "master" branch points to the last merge commit in Linus tree.

  + "linux-next" is based on "master" plus there are merged the "for-X-Y/*"
    development branches for the next merge window.

As a result, "master" and "linux-next" differ only by the few patches
which are in the queue for the next release. I believe that most
people actually sent patches based on the "master" branch because
they work with the Linus tree.

Note that livepatching is a pretty slowly moving subsystem.

By other worse, I believe that "master" is more appropriate for
livepatching.git.

Best Regards,
Petr

> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 140eafcbbd78..e603835e4744 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -15160,7 +15160,7 @@ M:	Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
>  R:	Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
>  L:	live-patching@vger.kernel.org
>  S:	Maintained
> -T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/livepatching/livepatching.git
> +T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/livepatching/livepatching.git for-next
>  F:	Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-livepatch
>  F:	Documentation/livepatch/
>  F:	arch/powerpc/include/asm/livepatch.h
> 
> base-commit: 62f4c998b297cf233997a2b4cd6fc2d2df0319c9