patches dropped from drm-misc-next [Was: Re: [PATCH 00/53] drm: Convert to platform remove callback returning] void

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Jani,

On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 4:30 PM Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at intel.com> wrote:
> [Trimmed the recipients considerably; there's really no need to keep
> spamming so many people about this.]

CC sfr

> On Mon, 19 Jun 2023, Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de> wrote:
> > Not knowing dim I think there is a simple(?) technical solution here: It
> > only has to make sure that after the pull request from drm-misc to drm
> > was sent, no new patches are added to the branch that is merged in next.
>
> The drm-misc-next and drm-intel-next branches are *always* open to
> patches, regardless of the merge window. That's not going to change. We
> never tell people "this is not the right time for your patches" due to
> the merge window, like some subsystems do.

Good (personally, I don't like it when a subsystem is not open to patches,
as it means that when I finally have time to work on patches myself, I
cannot submit them ;-)

> We have separate branches specifically for feeding to linux-next and
> they serve no other purpose. The tooling tries to push the right thing
> there, depending on the last pull request cutoff, so that linux-next
> reflects what it's supposed to, but obviously the tooling doesn't have
> the smarts to figure out when the last pull request is going to be
> sent. (Really, humans don't always get that right either, because
> predicting the future is kind of hard.)

OK. So all of this was a genuine mistake...

> Looks like you hit an issue, and although nobody else has complained
> about this one over the 9 years we've been using dim, it royally
> confused you. Sorry about that. There's always room for improvement in
> the tooling, in the process, and in the human communication.

Thanks for the explanation!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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