Re: linux-next: duplicate patches in the char-misc tree

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Fri Jun 02 2023 - 03:55:36 EST


On Fri, Jun 2, 2023 at 5:27 AM Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The following commits are also in the arm-soc tree as different
> commits (but the same patches):
>
> b866e7e7f995 ("misc: sram: Generate unique names for subpools")
> ca3222ac4477 ("dt-bindings: sram: Add compatible for ST-Ericsson U8500 eSRAM")
>
> These are commits
>
> 21e5a2d10c8f ("misc: sram: Generate unique names for subpools")
> 38bd22dac71e ("dt-bindings: sram: Add compatible for ST-Ericsson U8500 eSRAM")
>
> in the arm-soc tree.

Hm hehe I was a bit confused, one misc maintainer (Arnd) merged the patches
to the SoC tree, and another misc maintainer (Greg) merged them to the
actual misc tree.

My misunderstanding that this was handled through SoC like drivers/soc.

Arnd can you drop this from the SoC tree?

Yours,
Linus Walleij