[PULL] drm-intel-fixes

Krzysztof Kozlowski krzk at kernel.org
Fri Aug 9 07:30:05 UTC 2024


On 09/08/2024 09:13, Dave Airlie wrote:
> Hi Krzysztof,
> 
> You might want to familiarise yourself with the drm tree development
> procedures before weighing in,
> and snarky comments like the final one are not appreciated on this
> list or in this community.
> 
> The drm next trees are never rebased (only in super rare emergencies),
> we never rebase next onto fixes,
> 
> This leads to a number of things that are different from other workflows.
> 
> I agree the duplicate SoB isn't great, but it's also not harmful,
> 
> The cherry-pick thing is normal operating procedure unfortunately, we
> get told if we leave it out it causes problems later,
> so we add it in, and it resolves itself in the future when the next
> trees end up in Linus' tree.

So duplicating commits, instead of merging fixes into next branch, is
normal approach for drm-next? Surprising, I admit. Thanks for confirming.

Best regards,
Krzysztof



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