From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (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 1701860275; Sat, 6 Jul 2024 15:26:47 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1720279608; cv=none; b=bCbd30UNGbP94NVjeR+QwE8BcmtLjSh5nqIMP248J+AecD96Cjp0Z9NUAiDFXVRill4Qazt7cxUWstcx+zSFY7uq5WC+p3FZRsJYgYQPppve3aM0yelVMDkMLeV0hDdJRGKmGPacVX+9Thc9fT0cA3vH9Nng6X7r9yYybeD235I= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1720279608; c=relaxed/simple; bh=Z4s7Ke8P4I+dajGWfpsCZLdONC21kEws/gzbQw0g1SE=; h=Message-ID:Date:MIME-Version:Subject:To:Cc:References:From: In-Reply-To:Content-Type; b=Cd/emRdVIpHcx8xoD8F/F0XkPvtiB7cyYbAYSSbM94AQ0H0DQ/xur0sRqmSQJmQcJCyDhTSWI/v/QO3/fq47vZUMvc4JmA85iK7WH1p/fxIDIYkKE1o5UzmTFKwsBlKgKSefOphfsUwBVdKJZZprCAuBRFzRCA8gMIrziX8JJWI= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=XW24CNfD; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="XW24CNfD" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 724BCC2BD10; Sat, 6 Jul 2024 15:26:47 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1720279607; bh=Z4s7Ke8P4I+dajGWfpsCZLdONC21kEws/gzbQw0g1SE=; h=Date:Subject:To:Cc:References:From:In-Reply-To:From; b=XW24CNfDSiQ6BhGYyY4G9W+0MBlaUDzOdOZAmss3k5bXnjVVTrxIBDQ3ArzjknnCx Lns/SSaBvEZ7nvBR1+Dwko4w3zg9LPsw6GtboRCYyElSURSD46x9LkHoY5AQ5p+v/c N7n2gUVhwbd9xsvqqClpFq1rWrJJYxI4Ovnk6NjIxGy3b5OQb3XfpkKpvZ5gIIZbqq 5pJZGqKDwmnJHN/6JiwlnevZpfe2RhHfyFYm+WXKC8ZWIhzRk9qmxBDGlUpwtu1JBC G2dWaLDAytkFWJ+4VAJoT6VyeW5wkgBbaNQLh8QgC0TroWl7dFLIxeTPbnB5j6EqKH zmcn/diDwHlyA== Message-ID: <547c13c8-c3c3-495e-8ca9-d87156bfe3f5@kernel.org> Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2024 09:26:46 -0600 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 iproute2 0/4] Multiple Spanning Tree (MST) Support Content-Language: en-US To: Stephen Hemminger Cc: roopa@nvidia.com, razor@blackwall.org, bridge@lists.linux.dev, netdev@vger.kernel.org, liuhangbin@gmail.com, Tobias Waldekranz References: <20240702120805.2391594-1-tobias@waldekranz.com> <172020068352.8177.8028215256014256151.git-patchwork-notify@kernel.org> <20240705204915.1e9333ae@hermes.local> From: David Ahern In-Reply-To: <20240705204915.1e9333ae@hermes.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 7/5/24 9:49 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Fri, 5 Jul 2024 18:53:47 -0600 > David Ahern wrote: > >> On 7/5/24 11:31 AM, patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@kernel.org wrote: >>> Hello: >>> >>> This series was applied to iproute2/iproute2.git (main) >>> by Stephen Hemminger : >>> >> >> Why was this merged to the main repro? As a new feature to iproute2 this >> should be committed to next and only put in main on the next dev cycle. > > Because the kernel support was already added, I prefer to not force waiting > for code that is non-intrusive and kernel support is already present. I have told multiple people - with you in CC - that is not how iproute2 branching works. People need to send userspace patches for iproute2 in the same dev cycle as the kernel patches. You are now selectively undermining that process. What is the point of -next branch then?