linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: lots of merges in the sound-asoc tree

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Date:   Tue, 13 Feb 2018 11:42:10 +0000
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:     Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
        Linux-Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@...esas.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: lots of merges in the sound-asoc tree

On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 09:38:57AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:

> I know that you usually like to keep one topic branch per soc and then
> merge them all, but currently your tree seems to only contain a couple
> logical changes (platform to component and codec to component), so
> surely that could have been done in (maybe) 2 topic branches and saved
> large number of very small branches (often a single commit) and a large
> number of merges.

If you look at the changes that are per branch (one series is on a
single branch due to dependencies and a lower change rate) they're often
relatively large and likely to conflict with further development that
gets done.  This also lets me drop anything that causes problems much
more easily.

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