From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from perceval.ideasonboard.com (perceval.ideasonboard.com [213.167.242.64]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AFAF43218D3 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2025 12:34:02 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=213.167.242.64 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1757594044; cv=none; b=VMeRTR/vMZY0K17fJjBTC7Hwx99FE6KwvJyqFwD7gyYqvHxKCJ+ky2L5PjyDvEO34iKyqEYg09FGWBML34mUH43ALlHaOBjpPwNYJj5BDOgelQ0EgKWHnseHCTWKNAkuUh889cCWf9d6xUnIzbd4bpyxs4oX7njnqlxWwLKEcDc= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1757594044; c=relaxed/simple; bh=krJech3nOHIVPdG1nZ5YcdPUDiM3Jy60SeuD6G1hRZw=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=k15TDcUG3TFfrK2OKtPqI2kIe7NvYKbJhLUu0BYSfI5zjRtIn0DtDgqynFMTLgT/rLQ458y/UunQz6Xfmk79Ww1uFQyBAF3AqW3oi4OiBfWGQVQlSuvomcaC607ZidrS8v63lQa+N0YxjScX2QfuJ0VH9xiDdmww+mqsqJdh6qY= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=ideasonboard.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=ideasonboard.com; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=ideasonboard.com header.i=@ideasonboard.com header.b=YFOhAMMx; arc=none smtp.client-ip=213.167.242.64 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=ideasonboard.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=ideasonboard.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=ideasonboard.com header.i=@ideasonboard.com header.b="YFOhAMMx" Received: from pendragon.ideasonboard.com (81-175-209-231.bb.dnainternet.fi [81.175.209.231]) by perceval.ideasonboard.com (Postfix) with UTF8SMTPSA id 73174666; Thu, 11 Sep 2025 14:32:44 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=ideasonboard.com; s=mail; t=1757593964; bh=krJech3nOHIVPdG1nZ5YcdPUDiM3Jy60SeuD6G1hRZw=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=YFOhAMMxPurKd5ShOlKffoCODoTx56BMr9hvCs03TNE8ap7+B5ZKb0hKjl424luAj ja0YcuEClnvYsEUMCnLLz1Q5r2CeHyJ5shBYW4rnIPnDJMMNdVkGnEOj4HAPHO8CBw sj6BShmsvU9Kei/guhKLxHnIWvlDrP9CLfDHk92o= Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2025 15:33:33 +0300 From: Laurent Pinchart To: Bartosz Golaszewski Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski , ksummit@lists.linux.dev Subject: Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Hidden commits from next (aka why maintainers hoard them in backpack) Message-ID: <20250911123333.GD13915@pendragon.ideasonboard.com> References: <299e6601-a83e-4e5d-9dd9-12ae796cd913@kernel.org> <20250911122711.GC8177@pendragon.ideasonboard.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: ksummit@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 02:31:23PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote: > On Thu, 11 Sept 2025 at 14:27, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > > > > Just a friendly note, Laurent, I appreciate your work and I do not want > > > to point that you committed it incorrectly. In the contrary - your > > > commit is right, but your upstream maintainer stops you from including > > > this in linux-next. My aim here is only to discuss and improve the process. > > > > I would be happy to have my tree included in linux-next. I'm worried > > that the fact that the media subsystem cherry-picks my pull requests > > instead of merging them would cause issues though. Am I worrying > > needlessly, or is that a real issue ? > > Stephen Rothwell will send you automated emails about duplicate > commits being present in linux-next - one coming from your downstream > and one rebased in your upstream maintainer's tree. So the question is how to redirect Stephen's complaints to the person who is responsible for the issue in the first place :-) -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart