From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Gunthorpe Subject: Re: RFC: Run a dedicated hmm.git for 5.3 Date: Fri, 24 May 2019 13:53:01 -0300 Message-ID: <20190524165301.GD16845@ziepe.ca> References: <20190523154149.GB12159@ziepe.ca> <20190523155207.GC5104@redhat.com> <20190523163429.GC12159@ziepe.ca> <20190523173302.GD5104@redhat.com> <20190523175546.GE12159@ziepe.ca> <20190523182458.GA3571@redhat.com> <20190523191038.GG12159@ziepe.ca> <20190524064051.GA28855@infradead.org> <20190524124455.GB16845@ziepe.ca> <20190524162709.GD21222@phenom.ffwll.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20190524162709.GD21222@phenom.ffwll.local> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Christoph Hellwig , akpm@linux-foundation.org, Dave Airlie , Linus Torvalds , Jerome Glisse , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, Leon Romanovsky , Doug Ledford , Artemy Kovalyov , Moni Shoua , Mike Marciniszyn , Kaike Wan , Dennis Dalessandro , linux-mm@kvack.org, dri-devel List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 06:27:09PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote: > Sure topic branch sounds fine, we do that all the time with various > subsystems all over. We have ready made scripts for topic branches and > applying pulls from all over, so we can even soak test everything in our > integration tree. In case there's conflicts or just to make sure > everything works, before we bake the topic branch into permanent history > (the main drm.git repo just can't be rebased, too much going on and too > many people involvd). We don't rebase rdma.git either for the same reasons and nor does netdev So the usual flow for a shared topic branch is also no-rebase - testing/etc needs to be done before things get applied to it. Cheers, Jason