Re: Including Alpine -next tree in linux-next

[Antoine Tenart]

Hi Stephen,

On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 12:14:54AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 15:12:01 +0200 Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hello Eric,
> 
> Who is this "Eric" person? ;-)

My apologies. I completely messed up my copy-and-paste I guess... Of
course I meant "Stephen" :)

> > Would it be possible to include Alpine's -next tree in linux-next?
> > 
> > Repo: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/atenart/linux.git
> > Branch: alpine/for-next
> 
> Could you give me a short idea about what this tree contains?  Also,
> whose tree will it be merged via (or does it go direct to Linus
> (Torvalds)?

The Alpine SoCs are ARM and ARM64 processors. This branch will contain
patches we plan to send to arm-soc during their merge window. So mostly
device tree and SoC specific patches.

The patches will be merged through arm-soc before getting to Linus.

Thanks,
Antoine


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Antoine Ténart, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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