[PATCH] doc: Reword explanation of drm-misc-next-fixes.
Daniel Vetter
daniel at ffwll.ch
Mon Jan 29 08:41:07 UTC 2018
On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 12:41:11PM -0800, Eric Anholt wrote:
> Every rc6, I reread the docs trying to reason about where my patch
> should go (the answer is basically always "drm-misc-fixes"). Reword
> the explanation to clarify the role of drm-misc-next-fixes and
> hopefully point people to drm-misc-fixes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net>
Applied, thanks.
-Daniel
> ---
> drm-misc.rst | 10 +++++-----
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drm-misc.rst b/drm-misc.rst
> index 79212fca3449..c08234992266 100644
> --- a/drm-misc.rst
> +++ b/drm-misc.rst
> @@ -51,11 +51,11 @@ cherry-picking is not the default.
> drm-misc-next-fixes
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> -This branch is only relevant between rc6 of the current kernel version (X) and
> -rc1 of the next (X+1). This is the feature freeze period mentioned above in the
> -drm-misc-next section. During this time, drm-misc-next will roll over to target
> -kernel version X+2, and drm-misc-fixes will still be on kernel version X, so
> -drm-misc-next-fixes is used for fixes that target X+1.
> +During the time between rc6 of kernel version X and rc1 of X+1,
> +drm-misc-next will be targeting kernel version X+2 and drm-misc-fixes
> +still targets kernel version X. This branch is for fixes to bugs
> +introduced in the drm-misc-next pull request that was sent for X+1,
> +which aren't present in the drm-misc-fixes branch.
>
> See the timeline below for a visualization of patch flow.
>
> --
> 2.15.0
>
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Daniel Vetter
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