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 0262C322750 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2025 12:36:50 +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=1757594212; cv=none; b=rRYsqW6uNWhB7XkNlIQfz+gsdv7I7PJr76G7uAFQbQEmwUzwze5Pq9ACBXkabpcPrS2YhHYwH/1zyjRehpTPX/hWclZbF+PBgqPzESufkoS2mG/x+nG9KZmrdnAux9qR0ut4vcSZvzkEPbtBi3p5xSURLI5pZLFYwwHI1RIOrPE= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1757594212; c=relaxed/simple; bh=ddJiE7KSMq8rWHB0e5kYMfvn153k/AZO3qIx86Pwj9I=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=Phcidwy0clSgy8HZjNZhT31mMIa7xoJ2iz7FYXUNehx8ZnyjzK4SQWszCBHx/vBdfo1w3iDtljUNtIV/D903V7ov0DxJvnWWwN+kCjJtc8TMk/VphkaEidDkU8bwomwGJVU2CqK5qFuf5NgD8PCNCiGn0B0hRriIKb2oHg+FQ5c= 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=ZTkzbDl3; 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="ZTkzbDl3" Received: from pendragon.ideasonboard.com (81-175-209-231.bb.dnainternet.fi [81.175.209.231]) by perceval.ideasonboard.com (Postfix) with UTF8SMTPSA id E8979666; Thu, 11 Sep 2025 14:35:34 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=ideasonboard.com; s=mail; t=1757594135; bh=ddJiE7KSMq8rWHB0e5kYMfvn153k/AZO3qIx86Pwj9I=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=ZTkzbDl3T4w0kuwji1AOf65DQ86kogKWl11YJXCcBzn4IjXgwrCG50syCsI0xTDyF c7K2w9abc/Bk1gem7RGgXWOLTz95iLvssAMOKAVQqLwgNKHSkWueyf5ou6kL4aRxCI TgAQAI6fWsYQCJ5xOKbY8MTrNMSYY/7ClN7pIHWw= Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2025 15:36:24 +0300 From: Laurent Pinchart To: Johannes Berg Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski , ksummit@lists.linux.dev Subject: Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Hidden commits from next (aka why maintainers hoard them in backpack) Message-ID: <20250911123624.GE13915@pendragon.ideasonboard.com> References: <299e6601-a83e-4e5d-9dd9-12ae796cd913@kernel.org> <20250911122711.GC8177@pendragon.ideasonboard.com> <8e0590dcae46d8f8c3b8c29427b4c8ced227ea92.camel@sipsolutions.net> 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: <8e0590dcae46d8f8c3b8c29427b4c8ced227ea92.camel@sipsolutions.net> 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