linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: trees being removed

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Message-ID: <20240327041653.GA35281@sol.localdomain>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 21:16:53 -0700
From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc: Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>,
	Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>,
	Jens Wiklander <jens.wiklander@...aro.org>,
	Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
	Tyler Hicks <code@...icks.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: trees being removed

On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 10:13:09AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> The following trees are going to be removed from linux-next because they
> have not been updated in more than a year.  If you want a tree restored,
> just let me know (and update its branch).
> 
> Tree			Last commit date
>   URL
>   comits (if any)
> ----			----------------
> ecryptfs		2023-03-24 17:26:44 -0500
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tyhicks/ecryptfs.git#next
>   c1cc2db21607 ("ecryptfs: keystore: Fix typo 'the the' in comment")
>   a3d78fe3e1ae ("fs: ecryptfs: comment typo fix")
> fscrypt-current		2023-03-18 21:08:03 -0700
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fscrypt/linux.git#for-current
> fsverity-current	2023-03-15 22:50:41 -0700
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fsverity/linux.git#for-current
> modules-fixes		2023-02-06 08:45:55 -0800
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux.git#modules-linus
> rtc-fixes		2023-01-23 23:33:47 +0100
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/abelloni/linux.git#rtc-fixes
> tee-fixes		2023-02-12 14:10:17 -0800
>   https://git.linaro.org/people/jens.wiklander/linux-tee.git#fixes
> ubifs-fixes		2023-01-21 16:27:01 -0800
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/ubifs.git#fixes

fscrypt-current and fsverity-current are technically still in use.  I just
haven't used them recently because there haven't been any bug fixes that needed
to go in while other commits were already applied for the next merge window.

I've updated them to v6.9-rc1.

I'd guess that some of those *-fixes branches have something similar going on,
where they may be rarely used fixes branches as opposed to the main development
branch.

- Eric