linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: please clean up the alpine tree

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Date:   Fri, 23 Mar 2018 09:51:53 +0100
From:   Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@...tlin.com>
To:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:     Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@...tlin.com>,
        Linux-Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Tsahee Zidenberg <tsahee@...apurnalabs.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: linux-next: please clean up the alpine tree

Hi Stephen,

On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 08:33:15AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> 
> The alpine tree
> (git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/atenart/linux.git#alpine/for-next)
> only contains commits that have been upstreamed as different commits.
> It also hasn't been updated since late March 2017.  Please clean it up
> (it takes some time to merge - presumably just because of its age).
> 
> Or, if it is no longer being used, please let me know and I will remove
> it from linux-next.

Thanks for pointing this out, and sorry for the inconvenience. The
Alpine tree isn't very active and I haven't got patches for quite
some time.

I updated alpine/next to point to v4.16-rc1 to fix the issue. It's not
completely dead, but as it's not active you can also remove the
alpine/for-next tree from linux-next. And when/if I get patches to merge
in the future I'll ask to add it back. As you wish :)

Thank you for making linux-next!
Antoine

-- 
Antoine Ténart, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com