From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from galois.linutronix.de (Galois.linutronix.de [193.142.43.55]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D8B34225A32; Tue, 11 Mar 2025 12:56:05 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=193.142.43.55 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1741697769; cv=none; b=mQMT5eezB0K4Fz4Hy02bC8v0ErDlpYKU/xc0Ej2CBA1wvNURGP8+Ly9ChyJ6XC1U3QpQG2PX3tC5o46nZzLvo2/0XhujQ2lqmfBZ8GQkTS/YdaodUEiDuZqykloF+ieiqV8dz5XXkgSthhCmwZ0YrpDm2PvQVYAm3FzYCnXpigo= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1741697769; c=relaxed/simple; bh=LnKPXToH14oLYpbZUXfvUBr9Oc+J111e2HIOb4Gn8+Q=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=jXckrRaI9DLUVDDg3RrvSNfUDseo29V4ZCsCfcYHLS+Jc2i+2CyRFLbxJao5kutq8N3IjP8FTeEaX5MN8jS05Ie2iedNU2GtR925fOQ19lwEgwe7L0DLvNvYw5kSoGXquW92rL4irCWRxR0bjCduWeajoBHZAz1f9jcHxBvLTUg= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=linutronix.de; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=linutronix.de; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=linutronix.de header.i=@linutronix.de header.b=bXATl3Ow; dkim=permerror (0-bit key) header.d=linutronix.de header.i=@linutronix.de header.b=he0iUTbS; arc=none smtp.client-ip=193.142.43.55 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=linutronix.de Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=linutronix.de Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=linutronix.de header.i=@linutronix.de header.b="bXATl3Ow"; dkim=permerror (0-bit key) header.d=linutronix.de header.i=@linutronix.de header.b="he0iUTbS" From: Thomas Gleixner DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linutronix.de; s=2020; t=1741697763; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=gnsf0FrT5DicBhAB6QKWi/9sPeTz7JHcJEUdjBYndj4=; b=bXATl3OwQliRn+OKl1rhZntDdylx01g9/qQMSSFwM41wimHdT5lcYLjoQ+Q4kPyIAQWTyb M+Nm3qtDTSZJ1xj+y7C6uULo89HIcy/cG/dupiPmuhRXtCMMO/gSuDKVsJ4w5Qpz+EvQIq 3wGJ7Cc8cJaoXIRThMEoutv4q1gwhoBfQU0UcdDAWGAi5Wcp05kj8M2iv0v6KiJjBsaWkj 3HfVpPqzx4f7Q7G+sI+c/r0/6+Mz3vumS8L/aXghWqSzKhxuSkS/RDJiJXMgGWVlqJukxx 0fdCbA/3l8yLaQKVTpAvgxKtXS6MytI4+yWtIATSOUa0LTLBXiyZta2eYoK4Zw== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=ed25519-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linutronix.de; s=2020e; t=1741697763; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=gnsf0FrT5DicBhAB6QKWi/9sPeTz7JHcJEUdjBYndj4=; b=he0iUTbS42CamtFt8rurJ6mYgkH/PQbjINAlxo+BUQT+tRtXag5G18nUDaMvFyPvFAABdi 0gtVEIGEDcfPaPBA== To: Stephen Rothwell , Andrew Morton Cc: Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , Peter Zijlstra , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Next Mailing List Subject: Re: linux-next: duplicate patches in the tip tree In-Reply-To: <20250311224338.4baf583c@canb.auug.org.au> References: <20250311150847.5a63db36@canb.auug.org.au> <20250311020240.3b8c34b155f76fff5cccee01@linux-foundation.org> <20250311224338.4baf583c@canb.auug.org.au> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 13:56:02 +0100 Message-ID: <878qpb20bh.ffs@tglx> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain On Tue, Mar 11 2025 at 22:43, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > On Tue, 11 Mar 2025 02:02:40 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: >> There's presumably a better way of doing this, but it's really the >> first time it has happened in N years so it isn't obviously worth >> investing in setting something up. > > This is why we have shared stable branches. If the tip guys have all > those commits in a branch that they guarantee will not rebase (or be > rewritten), then you could fetch that branch and merge it into your > tree somewhere. tip timers/vdso is stable and won't be rebased. It might get delta fixes on top, but that should be not a problem. Andrew, feel free to pull that in. Thanks, tglx