Re: linux-next: manual merge of the kbuild tree with Linus' tree

From: Michal Marek
Date: Mon Sep 12 2016 - 05:03:15 EST


On 2016-09-12 04:53, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> Question, what is the best way to merge dependent patches? Considering
> they will need a good amount of architecture testing, I think they will
> have to go via arch trees. But it also does not make sense to merge these
> kbuild changes upstream first, without having tested them.

I think it makes sense to merge the kbuild changes via kbuild.git, even
if they are unused and untested. Any follow-up fixes required to enable
the first architecture can go through the respective architecture tree.
Does that sound OK?

Michal