On Wed, 29 Nov 2017 11:16:05 +0000, Chris Obbard said:

Currently I am writing drivers for ARM boards (think along the lines of
Raspberry Pi HATs, it doesn't belong in mainline;

Why not?  If you upstream your patches, you don't have to play the
"rebase every version" game.
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