linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: duplicate patches in the char-misc tree

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Date:   Fri, 2 Jun 2023 09:01:19 +0100
From:   Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:     Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Cc:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
        ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: duplicate patches in the char-misc tree

On Fri, Jun 02, 2023 at 09:54:57AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 2, 2023 at 5:27 AM Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
> 
> > The following commits are also in the arm-soc tree as different
> > commits (but the same patches):
> >
> >   b866e7e7f995 ("misc: sram: Generate unique names for subpools")
> >   ca3222ac4477 ("dt-bindings: sram: Add compatible for ST-Ericsson U8500 eSRAM")
> >
> > These are commits
> >
> >   21e5a2d10c8f ("misc: sram: Generate unique names for subpools")
> >   38bd22dac71e ("dt-bindings: sram: Add compatible for ST-Ericsson U8500 eSRAM")
> >
> > in the arm-soc tree.
> 
> Hm hehe I was a bit confused, one misc maintainer (Arnd) merged the patches
> to the SoC tree, and another misc maintainer (Greg) merged them to the
> actual misc tree.
> 
> My misunderstanding that this was handled through SoC like drivers/soc.
> 
> Arnd can you drop this from the SoC tree?

No need to drop them, we can keep them both, no harm :)