On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 08:12:37PM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2018, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:

> > FWIW, for the most part I stopped reporting issues with -next after some people
> > yelled at me for the 'noise' I was creating. Along the line of "This has been
> > fixed in branch xxx; why don't you do your homework and check there", with
> > branch xxx not even being in -next.

> What would be the reason for *not* having all the branches, including
> fixes, of a subsystem/driver in linux-next? Baffled.

Some people only put things into -next after they've passed QA (like
Steven's thing about 0day) so you'll see branches that are undergoing QA
in git before they get merged into the -next branch.