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

[Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>]

On 11/09/2025 14:06, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Sep 2025, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> 
>> Identifying the patches
>> =======================
>> There are two cases here for patches committed by sub-maintainers, but
>> never fed to next:
>> 1. The upstream maintainer took them via pull request.
> 
> Hm, why would that imply that they never make to linux-next though?

I was not precise. The commits end in next once they reach upstream
maintainer. I wanted to say they are never in the next while being only
in sub-maintainer's tree.

> 
> I always keep multiple topic branches that are queued for upcoming merge 
> window, and it doesn't really matter whether they came in from pull 
> request of whether I have created it myself.
> 
> And all those branches then merge into for-next, which linux-next is 
> consuming.

Yep, that's how it should be.

> 
> I don't see how the fact that (part of) topic branch came in via pull 
> request would make any difference ... ?



Best regards,
Krzysztof