From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D7068C11 for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2017 17:58:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mezzanine.sirena.org.uk (mezzanine.sirena.org.uk [106.187.55.193]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4067D1B3 for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2017 17:58:49 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 18:58:38 +0100 From: Mark Brown To: Olof Johansson Message-ID: <20170424175838.ecpqinn725jtxeab@sirena.org.uk> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="f3grvxfnbipyimmn" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Cc: ksummit , Dave Airlie , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Ingo Molnar , Doug Ledford , David Miller Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] "Maintainer summit" invitation discussion List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , --f3grvxfnbipyimmn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 10:29:02AM -0700, Olof Johansson wrote: > On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 9:17 AM, Linus Walleij wrote: > > One thing he does is queue an immutable topic branch, announce it and > > let all affected subsystems pull it in, so that we (e.g. GPIO) can then > > refactor or apply local fixes in "our" subsystem from that point, even during > > the development cycle. It is pretty neat. > Yeah, Lee has been doing a good job there (even though we always > double-check about immutable branches to make the producer aware that Yeah, I do the same thing where that comes up (mainly for regulator and sometimes regmap). Seems to work pretty well. > we've picked it up). The clk maintainers (Mike/Stephen) have been > doing a good job too where they tend to apply patches on a per-driver > branch that they keep immutable. That's what I do as well. It's especially helpful if you discover a need to do a cross merge after things have been applied, it means that you probably already have something fairly sensible to send to the other maintainers involved and don't need to rebase things or duplicate commits. Before I started doing this those things were always painful, now I just need to sign a tag. --f3grvxfnbipyimmn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAABCAAdFiEEreZoqmdXGLWf4p/qJNaLcl1Uh9AFAlj+PM4ACgkQJNaLcl1U h9BiCAgAhRYMPaO3BkH+7FZs/y9zwb9JOPbYOJXkXnNQqBM5u3uUU0V0rRA0Z03B 4cQzJkf9jjsiIgyHgbOQoYunBCluuwiyd1YEEKV4WwYoZ4OqKudmRY6Wz89S6YEa lMaNMdD/mdvo7Ja7qFEq8cV1PeU0Eu3PYC9/o5hKScdIxik5aWJvYvcsdn5EvAiH WL1Y6PqcH4Njef7FeMfQH45ayFFLpCupKLaarhbD9X/7oeX/mSoPaQh9n1y9IRYr aZeQsKysXi8P57sLiFnrumGXs7oaaehToPYja/9RgE2fQHDzHLCCe6l5X4WaeODy qsN3+D+r4cgszGWHO8+mPz31EEvBAQ== =8GpV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --f3grvxfnbipyimmn--