Re: [PATCH v5 00/21] Move Hisilicon 6421v600 SPMI driver set out of staging

[Lee Jones]

On Wed, 27 Jan 2021, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 06:11:24PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 07:02:39PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 05:57:52PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> > 
> > > > Is there a branch we can pull from?
> > 
> > > Once 0-day passes, you can pull from my staging-testing branch from
> > > staging.git on git.kernel.org if you want.  Give it 24 hours to pass
> > > before it hits that location.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> 
> Should be out there now if you want to pull.
> 
> > > Do you need a tag to pull from?
> > 
> > It'd be nice but not essential.
> 
> Why do you want/need this?  Having these changes in your tree is good,
> but what about other coding style cleanups that I will end up applying
> over time before the 5.12-rc1 merge window opens?  Are you wanting to
> take the moved driver in your tree, or something else?
> 
> Traditionally moving drivers out of staging can be done 2 ways:
> 	- all happens in the staging tree, I take an ack from the
> 	  subsystem maintainer that this is ok to do.
> 	- A new driver enters the "real" subsystem tree, and then I
> 	  delete the driver in the staging tree.  This doesn't preserve
> 	  history as well (not at all), but can be easier for trees that
> 	  move quickly (like networking.)
> 
> Which ever works for you is fine with me, but relying on the code to
> stay "not touched" in my tree after you pull it almost never happens due
> to the number of drive-by coding style cleanups that end up in the
> staging tree every week.

I would have expected the whole set to be merged as a set into a
single tree, placed on an immutable branch and a pull-request to be
sent out for the other maintainers to pull from (if they so wished).

This would ensure development could continue on any/all of the
affected drivers/files.

If it's not too late, I'd be more than happy to facilitate.

-- 
Lee Jones [李琼斯]
Senior Technical Lead - Developer Services
Linaro.org │ Open source software for Arm SoCs
Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog