Re: Including Raspberry Pi -next trees in linux-next

[Stephen Warren]

On 01/05/2016 01:06 PM, Eric Anholt wrote:
> Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Hi Eric,
> >
> > On Sat, 26 Dec 2015 13:15:50 -0800 Eric Anholt <eric@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > I'll be sending pull-requests to Florian soon, but I would like to get
> > > my trees included in linux-next to get increased testing coverage of
> > > them against everything else going on for 4.5.  I'm expecting to produce
> > > trees under these branch names for the forseeable future.
> > >
> > > Repo: https://github.com/anholt/linux.git
> > >
> > > branches:
> > > drm-vc4-next
> > > bcm2835-dt-next
> > > bcm2835-soc-next
> > > bcm2835-drivers-next
> > > bcm2385-defconfig-next
> > > (bcm2835-maintainers-next is a placeholder since we have nothing for it
> > > this round)

Typically maintainers merge everything together into a single "for-next" 
to maintain a reasonable set of branches. I guess it doesn't affect me 
so my opinion isn't too relevant though:-)

> > I have added the first 5 from today.  Can you tell me which trees they
> > will be merged via so I can position them in my list correctly,
> > please?
>
> drm-vc4-next goes through airlied's drm-next.  bcm2835-* are intended to
> go through Florian's stblinux tree, though things didn't go that way
> this time because I'm still figuring out timelines.
>
> Looking through Next/Trees, it looks like stblinux isn't in the list.
> That seems like something that would be useful, given that Florian's
> been successfully sending pull requests to arm-soc for at least a couple
> of releases.  (<1445718981-13552-1-git-send-email-f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>,
> for example).  His branches appear to be defconfig/next,
> devicetree/next, maintainers/next, and soc/next, all on
> https://github.com/Broadcom/stblinux.git.
>
> > Also, I was wondering how they relate to the bcm2835 tree I currently
> > have (git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rpi/linux-rpi.git
> > for-next) currently maintained by Stephen Warren (cc'd).
>
> Stephen and Lee have limited time to work on 2835 as it's only been a
> free-time project for them afaict.  I offered to help on the merging
> process, since it's job related.  I don't have kernel.org access any
> more I think, and it turns out github process is familiar to 2835's
> potential contributors, so it's working out quite well to host the
> branches there.  They're still chiming in with acks and feedback when
> time permits, though.

It'd be quite easy to get you access to the existing kernel.org bcm2835 
tree though; just get an account there and the admins can add you to the 
ACL.
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