Re: pull-request: ieee802154 for net 2019-04-25

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@datenfreihafen.org>
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 18:03:11 +0200

> An update from ieee802154 for your *net* tree.
> 
> Another fix from Kangjie Lu to ensure better checking regmap updates in the
> mcr20a driver. Nothing else I have pending for the final release.
> 
> If there are any problems let me know.

Pulled, thanks Stefan.

> During the preparation of this pull request a workflow question on
> my side came up and wonder if you (or some subsystem maintainer
> sending you pull requests) does have a comment on this. The
> ieee802154 subsystem has a low activity in the number of patches
> coming through it. I still wanted to pull from your net tree
> regularly to test if changes have implications to it. During this
> pulls I often end up with merge of the remote tracking branch. Which
> in the end could mean that I would have something like 3-4 merge
> commits in my tree with only one actual patch I want to send over to
> you. Feels and looks kind of silly to be honest.
> 
> How do other handle this? Just merge once every rc? Merge just
> before sending a pull request? Never merge, wait for Dave to pull
> and merge and do a pull of his tree directly afterwards?

I would say never pull from the net tree until right after I pull your
tree and thus you can do a clean fast-forward merge.

If you want to test, right before you send me a pull request do a test
pull into a local throw-away branch.

Otherwise I'll handle conflicts and merge issues.

Thanks.