On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 12:04:26PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:

On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 09:57:40AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

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On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 06:11:24PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:

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Do you need a tag to pull from?

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It'd be nice but not essential.

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Why do you want/need this?  Having these changes in your tree is good,
but what about other coding style cleanups that I will end up applying
over time before the 5.12-rc1 merge window opens?  Are you wanting to
take the moved driver in your tree, or something else?

I want to apply the regulator driver so I stop being sent this patch
series which will help keep my backlog more manageable.

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Traditionally moving drivers out of staging can be done 2 ways:
	- all happens in the staging tree, I take an ack from the
	  subsystem maintainer that this is ok to do.
	- A new driver enters the "real" subsystem tree, and then I
	  delete the driver in the staging tree.  This doesn't preserve
	  history as well (not at all), but can be easier for trees that
	  move quickly (like networking.)

The whole reason the driver is in the staging tree is that Mauro has a
requirement to do things in a way that preserves history and so won't
send any non-incremental patches.

Ok, should we wait until after 5.12-rc1 is out then?

thanks,

greg k-h