On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 04:55:20PM +0000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 at 16:07, Greg KH gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 03:23:00PM +0000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
Yes, of course I object to it.
I can not apply a patch to the stable trees that are not in Linus's tree first. So there's nothing I can do here with this.
Ok, we can wait until my patch propagates into Linus' tree, but I would have thought it would be a waste of your time to apply a patch which is waiting to be inevitably superseded by a different one.
Your patch has to apply on top of the existing one, so there's not an issue here.
And might as well fix it now, as I can never count on a "future" patch getting merged.
I can see there are 238 PRs at Linus' tree on github and I am very glad that I looked into one of them --- it contained a long comment explaining that I should NOT do what I was just about to do, i.e. make a PR against Linus' tree! :)
We do not do kernel development on github :)
thanks,
greg k-h