linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: manual merge of the block tree with the ide and kspp-gustavo trees

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Message-ID: <YNm0MBV6Sn+ceEZ9@smile.fi.intel.com>
Date:   Mon, 28 Jun 2021 14:36:16 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...hwell.id.au>
Cc:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>,
        "Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster@...klimov.de>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Finn Thain <fthain@...ux-m68k.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Vaibhav Gupta <vaibhavgupta40@...il.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the block tree with the ide and
 kspp-gustavo trees

On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 10:30:45PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jun 2021 13:56:13 +0300 Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 7:13 AM Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
> > 
> > >   2c8cbe0b2971 ("IDE SUBSYSTEM: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones")
> > >   9a51ffe845e4 ("ide: use generic power management")
> > >   f9e09a0711ca ("ide: sc1200: use generic power management")
> > >   d41b375134a9 ("ide: delkin_cb: use generic power management")
> > >   6800cd8cbc6e ("ide-acpi: use %*ph to print small buffer")
> > >   731d5f441e1c ("ide: Fix fall-through warnings for Clang")
> > >
> > > from the ide and kspp-gustavo trees and commits:  
> > 
> > As far as I can tell the IDE hasn't sent PR to LInus for a long time
> > (like a few release cycles). I don't know what happened there, though.
> 
> Yeah, the top commit in the ide tree (which is intended to hold bug
> fixes for Linus' tree) is dated 4 Aug 2020, so hopefully this will
> prompt Dave to do something with it.  There has been no ide "future
> development" tree in linux-next since 2011.

Yep, I think the best approach here may be to apply those (by sending a PR)
followed by marking subsystem orphaned or delete it entirely.

David, what are your thoughts?

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko