[Ksummit-discuss] Maintainer's Summit Agenda Planning

[James Bottomley]

On Wed, 2017-10-11 at 21:51 +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Mon, 09 Oct 2017, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley at HansenPartnersh
> ip.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 2017-10-09 at 18:49 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > > 
> > > Do you suggest one big patch, that goes to who?  Or lots of
> > > little
> > > patches that go out at once to the individual maintainers of the
> > > affected code?
> > 
> > I was actually thinking we validate the script and if there are no
> > problems, apply it at -rc1 ... so effectively one big patch.
> 
> By -rc1 we (drm in general, drm/i915 in particular) will already have
> accumulated easily 4-5 weeks' worth of commits for the *next* merge
> window. Applying treewide stuff to Linus' tree at -rc1 forces a
> backmerge and potentially conflicts galore

If we're applying a semantic patch script (and we've verified it works
well enough to use the script on the -rc1 main tree), couldn't you
simply apply it to your tree at the same time?

James

>  I'm not particularly thrilled about. I'd much rather see the patches
> to our driver come through our tree, and we generally deal with them
> without a fuss.
> 
> BR,
> Jani.
> 
>