Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Hidden commits from next (aka why maintainers hoard them in backpack)

[Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 02:35:38PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2025-09-11 at 15:27 +0300, 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 ?
> 
> If they end up in both trees with different commit IDs it'll get flagged
> (and you'll get an email about it), but presumably you'll drop them from
> your trees pretty much as soon as that happens, so it should be fine
> afaict.

If it happens as an accident, sure, but I don't think it's a very nice
mode of operation as a standard process.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart