Re: [PATCH v5 00/21] Move Hisilicon 6421v600 SPMI driver set out of staging

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-27T09:02:20Z

On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 06:11:24PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 07:02:39PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 05:57:52PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
>
> > > Is there a branch we can pull from?
>
> > Once 0-day passes, you can pull from my staging-testing branch from
> > staging.git on git.kernel.org if you want. Give it 24 hours to pass
> > before it hits that location.
>
> Thanks.

Should be out there now if you want to pull.

> > Do you need a tag to pull from?
>
> It'd be nice but not essential.

Why do you want/need this? Having these changes in your tree is good,
but what about other coding style cleanups that I will end up applying
over time before the 5.12-rc1 merge window opens? Are you wanting to
take the moved driver in your tree, or something else?

Traditionally moving drivers out of staging can be done 2 ways:
- all happens in the staging tree, I take an ack from the
subsystem maintainer that this is ok to do.
- A new driver enters the "real" subsystem tree, and then I
delete the driver in the staging tree. This doesn't preserve
history as well (not at all), but can be easier for trees that
move quickly (like networking.)

Which ever works for you is fine with me, but relying on the code to
stay "not touched" in my tree after you pull it almost never happens due
to the number of drive-by coding style cleanups that end up in the
staging tree every week.

thanks,

greg k-h