linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] Immutable branch between MFD, PWM and RTC due for the v5.13 merge window

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Date:   Wed, 10 Mar 2021 12:54:08 +0100
From:   Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>
To:     Uwe Kleine-König 
        <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Cc:     Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>,
        Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@....net>,
        Heiko Stuebner <heiko@...ech.de>, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>,
        Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, linux-rtc@...r.kernel.org,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>,
        Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>,
        Daniel Palmer <daniel@...f.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
        Andreas Kemnade <andreas@...nade.info>,
        NXP Linux Team <linux-imx@....com>,
        linux-pwm@...r.kernel.org, Stephan Gerhold <stephan@...hold.net>,
        allen <allen.chen@....com.tw>,
        Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,
        Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@...sk>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@...ertech.it>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Pengutronix Kernel Team <kernel@...gutronix.de>,
        Heiko Stuebner <heiko.stuebner@...obroma-systems.com>,
        Josua Mayer <josua.mayer@....eu>,
        Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Immutable branch between MFD, PWM and RTC due for the
 v5.13 merge window

On 10/03/2021 12:39:59+0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello Lee,
> 
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 08:05:20PM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> > On Mon, 01 Mar 2021, Lee Jones wrote:
> > 
> > > The following changes since commit fe07bfda2fb9cdef8a4d4008a409bb02f35f1bd8:
> > > 
> > >   Linux 5.12-rc1 (2021-02-28 16:05:19 -0800)
> > > 
> > > are available in the Git repository at:
> > > 
> > >   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lee/mfd.git ib-mfd-pwm-rtc-v5.13
> > > 
> > > for you to fetch changes up to 80629611215d1c5d52ed3cf723fd6d24a5872504:
> > > 
> > >   MAINTAINERS: Add entry for Netronix embedded controller (2021-03-01 10:26:17 +0000)
> > > 
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Immutable branch between MFD, PWM and RTC due for the v5.13 merge window
> > > 
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > > [...]
> > 
> > FYI, if anyone has pulled this, they should probably rebase it onto
> > v5.12-rc2 and delete the v5.12-rc1 tag from their tree:
> > 
> >   https://lwn.net/Articles/848431/
> 
> I'm not directly affected, but I wonder: The idea of an immutable branch
> is that the same history gets included in different trees. If now each
> maintainer rebases individually the result isn't the same
> history any more in each tree which somewhat defeats the idea of using
> immutable branches.
> 
> IMHO there are two ways forward: Either someone (Lee again?) creates a
> new pull request for this series rebased on -rc2; or we accept that
> these few patches are based on -rc1. For the latter it would be
> beneficial to merge the tag into a tree that is already based on -rc2.
> 

The solution is simply for the maintainers merging the immutable branch
to do that in a branch based on -rc2. Eg. I've rebased rtc-next on -rc2
(fast forward, I didn't have any patch). I can now merge this branch if
necessary, problem solved. If you can't rebased, nothing prevents you
from merging -rc2 in any branch.


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Alexandre Belloni, co-owner and COO, Bootlin
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