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[86.27.177.88]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id w22-20020a7bc756000000b0038171f6bb63sm4827495wmk.35.2022.03.02.00.00.33 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Wed, 02 Mar 2022 00:00:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2022 08:00:31 +0000 From: Lee Jones To: Greg KH Cc: Stephen Rothwell , Arnd Bergmann , Alistair Francis , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Next Mailing List , Robert Marko Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the char-misc tree with the mfd tree Message-ID: References: <20220228193928.3ec6ee98@canb.auug.org.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 01 Mar 2022, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Mar 01, 2022 at 10:54:57AM +0000, Lee Jones wrote: > > On Tue, 01 Mar 2022, Greg KH wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Mar 01, 2022 at 09:37:41AM +0000, Lee Jones wrote: > > > > On Mon, 28 Feb 2022, Greg KH wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 12:46:44PM +0000, Lee Jones wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, 28 Feb 2022, Greg KH wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 09:01:49AM +0000, Lee Jones wrote: > > > > > > > > On Mon, 28 Feb 2022, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Today's linux-next merge of the char-misc tree got a conflict in: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I did ask for this *not* to be merged when it was in -testing. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Sorry, I missed that, I saw your ack on the patch so that's why I took > > > > > > > it. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I'll follow-up with Greg. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Should I revert this from my tree? > > > > > > > > > > > > I did try to catch it before a revert would have been required. > > > > > > > > > > My fault. > > > > > > > > > > > But yes, please revert it. > > > > > > > > > > Will go do so now. > > > > > > > > Thank you. > > > > > > > > > > The Ack is not standard and should not be merged. > > > > > > > > > > I do not understand this, what went wrong here? > > > > > > > > The "Ack" you saw was just a placeholder. > > > > > > > > When I provided it, I would have done so like this: > > > > > > > > "For my own reference (apply this as-is to your sign-off block): > > > > > > > > Acked-for-MFD-by: Lee Jones " > > > > > > > > REF: https://lore.kernel.org/all/YQ0fYe531yCyP4pf@google.com/ > > > > > > > > The majority of maintainers I regularly work with know this to mean > > > > that the set is due to be routed via MFD (with a subsequent > > > > pull-request to an immutable branch to follow), since MFD is often > > > > the centre piece (parent) of the patch-sets I deal with. > > > > > > > > I appreciate that this could cause confusion, but I'm not sure of a > > > > better way to convey this information such that it survives through > > > > various submission iterations. > > > > > > But what else is another maintainer supposed to think if they see that > > > ack on the patch? Ignore it? I took that to mean "this is good from a > > > mfd-point-of-view" which meant it can go through whatever tree it is > > > supposed to. > > > > > > Are you wanting this individual patch to go through your tree now only? > > > If so, you should say that by NOT acking it :) > > > > It's not quite as easy as that. > > > > It wouldn't be fair to the contributor to start reviews once all the > > other patches in the set are ready to be merged. So how would I > > indicate that the MFD part is ready, fully expecting some of the other > > patches in the set to be reworked and subsequent revisions are to be > > submitted? > > But from an "outside" observer, this patch series seemed to have acks > from all maintainers, yet no one was taking it. Which is why I picked > it up (someone asked me to.) Having the subsystem maintainer ack it > implied to me that there was no problem. Odd that you later on had one :) I understand the problem and I'm not blaming you for your assumptions. Can you recommend a better solution though? To be fair this very seldom causes issues. And now you know, you know. :) > > > How do you want to see this merged? > > > > The plan is for the whole set to be merged together via MFD. > > > > All of the other maintainers have now Acked, so it's ready to go: > > > > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220131133049.77780-1-robert.marko@sartura.hr/ > > > > Looking at the diff, I'm not entirely sure why you took it in the > > first place? > > As I mentioned above, someone else asked me to as it was sitting around > for quite a while with no movement. Probably better for them to reply to the 0th patch in the first instance. -- Lee Jones [李琼斯] Principal Technical Lead - Developer Services Linaro.org │ Open source software for Arm SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog