Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: name the wufan/ipe next branch
From: Fan Wu <wufan@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-09-28 15:57:53
On 9/25/2026 10:52 PM, Matthias Goergens wrote:
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The T: entry for INTEGRITY POLICY ENFORCEMENT (IPE) names wufan/ipe without a branch. The repository's HEAD points to branch master, which mainline already contains. linux-next merges the next branch of this repository (Next/Trees). Name that branch in the entry. Signed-off-by: Matthias Goergens <redacted> --- This is part of a cleanup of all T: entries whose repository HEAD is not where development happens: one patch per repository, sent in small batches. The plan is at [1], and why it goes out in batches at [2]. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260924033200.3615554-1-matthias.goergens@gmail.com/ (local) [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260924101844.2403008-1-matthias.goergens@gmail.com/ (local) MAINTAINERS | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 140eafcbbd78..fc42b68e0718 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS@@ -12960,7 +12960,7 @@ INTEGRITY POLICY ENFORCEMENT (IPE) M: Fan Wu <wufan@kernel.org> L: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org S: Supported -T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wufan/ipe.git +T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wufan/ipe.git next F: Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/ipe.rst F: Documentation/security/ipe.rst F: scripts/ipe/base-commit: 62f4c998b297cf233997a2b4cd6fc2d2df0319c9
Hi Matthias, From the related discussion, this looks intended to stop Sashiko from picking a stale tree as its baseline. For IPE, I only update next when there are patches queued, so it can remain unchanged for several releases. Contributors should normally base their work on Linus' master rather than next. Naming next here could therefore lead to the same stale-baseline problem. I also looked at your Sashiko PR. When the default HEAD is a strict ancestor of Linus' master, would Sashiko use Linus' master instead? If so, that's the behavior we want for IPE, and there would be no need to add next here. Fan