Re: [PATCH v5 00/21] Move Hisilicon 6421v600 SPMI driver set out of staging

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 12:04:26PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 09:57:40AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 06:11:24PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> > > > Do you need a tag to pull from?
> 
> > > It'd be nice but not essential.
> 
> > Why do you want/need this?  Having these changes in your tree is good,
> > but what about other coding style cleanups that I will end up applying
> > over time before the 5.12-rc1 merge window opens?  Are you wanting to
> > take the moved driver in your tree, or something else?
> 
> I want to apply the regulator driver so I stop being sent this patch
> series which will help keep my backlog more manageable.
> 
> > Traditionally moving drivers out of staging can be done 2 ways:
> > 	- all happens in the staging tree, I take an ack from the
> > 	  subsystem maintainer that this is ok to do.
> > 	- A new driver enters the "real" subsystem tree, and then I
> > 	  delete the driver in the staging tree.  This doesn't preserve
> > 	  history as well (not at all), but can be easier for trees that
> > 	  move quickly (like networking.)
> 
> The whole reason the driver is in the staging tree is that Mauro has a
> requirement to do things in a way that preserves history and so won't
> send any non-incremental patches.

Ok, should we wait until after 5.12-rc1 is out then?

thanks,

greg k-h