Re: linux-next: manual merge of the block tree with the drbd tree

From: Mark Brown

Date: Wed Mar 25 2026 - 12:30:06 EST


On Wed, Mar 25, 2026 at 09:56:57AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 3/25/26 9:41 AM, Mark Brown wrote:

> > Since I've got no confidence in my ability to do so rather than
> > resolving this I have marked the DRBD driver as BROKEN for today
> > (there's a half completed merge in the tree which shows how far I got)
> > and I will reorder the drbd tree after the block tree going forward
> > since it seems to feed into there.

> It _should_ feed into there, for some reason their tree got added to
> -next rather than go the usual route.

It's fine and normal to have multiple levels of tree in -next, some
trees like the soc tree even require that any pull requests sent to them
have had some soaking in -next. It does look like this goes in as
patches rather than pull requests though? That has more likelyhood of
causing issues.

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