Re: Question about ntfs3 git pull request

[Kari Argillander]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 07:47:09PM +0300, Konstantin Komarov wrote:
> Hello, Stephen, Linus!
> 
> I have a question about next git pull request.
> 
> After first ntfs3 pull request [1] was accepted
> there are some new commits, that I want to send for rc5 probably
> (need more tests + some time in linux-next).

Imo you can send PR before rc5. No need to send head if you do not want.
Some of the patches has already been in linux-next almoust 3 weeks. Also
other people might want to test what we have done. Of course they are in
linux-next but many folks test Linus rc's so we want there patches also.
If we do massive commit dump to rc5 it is quite close already release
date and other people do not get testing time so much.

  Argillander

> I've noticed, that I missed step
> "If your upstream-bound branch has emptied entirely into the mainline
> during the merge window, you can pull it forward with a command like"
> from Kernel Maintainer Handbook [2].
> 
> Right now my github repo still based on 5.14-rc7.
> Do I need to update it with git merge up to 5.15-rcX?
> Or will it be ok to send git pull request as is and
> back merge master only when 5.15 will release?
> 
> 
> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/aa4aa155-b9b2-9099-b7a2-349d8d9d8fbd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#u
> [2]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/maintainer/rebasing-and-merging.html#finally