Re: [PATCH v1 0/7] platform/x86: intel_pmc_core: Add debugfs entries

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Tue Feb 04 2020 - 06:34:18 EST


On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 04:00:43AM +0000, Kammela, Gayatri wrote:
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> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/7] platform/x86: intel_pmc_core: Add debugfs
> > entries
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 8:03 PM Kammela, Gayatri
> > <gayatri.kammela@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > > It doesn't apply to our for-next branch.
> > > Sorry to hear that. I've rebased the series on mainline 5.5-rc7. Should I
> > rebase it on for-next branch?
> >
> > You should always base your branch on the for-next (whatever it's being
> > called) of the subsystem your series against of.
>
> Hi Andy,
>
> The current series has a dependency on Tiger Lake and Elkhart Lake patche which is merged in to mainline.
>
> (554f269f0f38 platform/x86: intel_pmc_core: Add Intel Elkhart Lake support
> 49a437941c3f platform/x86: intel_pmc_core: Add Intel Tiger Lake support
> 6268c0b278b5 platform/x86: intel_pmc_core: Make debugfs entry for pch_ip_power_gating_status conditional
> e39854781830 platform/x86: intel_pmc_core: Create platform dependent bitmap structs
> b1cb33dae414 platform/x86: intel_pmc_core: Clean up: Remove comma after the termination line)
>
> But they are not available in for-next branch. I am confused, how that could be the case. For me to base the current series on for-next branch, the dependency patch series should be available in for-next branch.

I'm wondering how did you check it?
The branch location is in this [1] tree.

[1]: http://git.infradead.org/linux-platform-drivers-x86.git

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko