linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: duplicate patches in the mfd-fixes tree

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Message-ID: <20251105151559.GI8064@google.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2025 15:15:59 +0000
From: Lee Jones <lee@...nel.org>
To: Corey Minyard <corey@...yard.net>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	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 mfd-fixes tree

On Wed, 05 Nov 2025, Corey Minyard wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 05, 2025 at 09:47:50AM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> > On Mon, 27 Oct 2025, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > The following commits are also in Linus Torvalds' tree as different
> > > commits (but the same patches):
> > > 
> > >   91a3e1f5453a ("mfd: ls2kbmc: Check for devm_mfd_add_devices() failure")
> > >   fdff3cadeea9 ("mfd: ls2kbmc: Fix an IS_ERR() vs NULL check in probe()")
> > > 
> > > These are commits
> > > 
> > >   4af66c2bcab0 ("mfd: ls2kbmc: check for devm_mfd_add_devices() failure")
> > >   0892507f4a0b ("mfd: ls2kbmc: Fix an IS_ERR() vs NULL check in probe()")
> > > 
> > > in Linus' tree.
> > 
> > This is because Corey applied patches that they shouldn't have done,
> > despite being expressively requested not to!
> > 
> > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251009095611.GC8757@google.com/
> 
> I missed this completely, I'm sorry.
> 
> If there's anything I can do to fix this, I will, but I'm not sure what
> is best now.

Just the fact that you have now acknowledged this is enough for me.

However frustrating it may be, no real harm was done.

Thanks for reaching out.

-- 
Lee Jones [李琼斯]