Re: [Device-drivers-devel] [PATCH 00/36 v2] staging: iio: ADI drivers for staging-next

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 08:18, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On 10/28/10 02:44, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 14:17, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>> Hopefully there shouldn't be any roadblocks now before pushing to GregK=
H.
>>> I'll do so in a day or two if there aren't any issues.
>>
>> ive bounced it over to him now
>>
> I'm guessing this lot *just* missed the merge window. =C2=A0Despite all M=
ike's
> hard work they were proposed for merging very late so we can't really com=
plain!
>
> Anyhow, this is not necessarily a bad thing as it will mean they sit in
> staging-next for a couple of months and we can do a lot of needed cleanin=
g up
> before the next merge window. =C2=A0The trick is probably going to be to =
synchronize
> this chunk of the blackfin tree against staging-next so that we can apply=
 any
> accepted/reviewed patches to both trees as we move forward.
>
> I can set up an additional 'in between' tree if that is helpful? (kernel.=
org hosted)
> It would contain whatever we have sent on to Greg KH but based against ma=
inline
> rather than linux-next (with no rebasing but with merges to move with the=
 release
> candidates as they appear). Hence it would effectively be iio-next though=
 formally
> that role will still be handled by Greg's staging-next tree.

as long as the patches are in staging-next, i think things are fine.
with the bulk of the code merged, what we have left should be a lot
easier to sync/work on.
-mike