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SubjectRe: [GIT PULL linux-next] Add Compiler Attributes tree
On Wed, 3 Oct 2018 14:14:28 +0200
Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com> wrote:

> HI Dominique,
>
> On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 12:37 AM Dominique Martinet
> <asmadeus@codewreck.org> wrote:
> >
> > Miguel Ojeda wrote on Wed, Oct 03, 2018:
> > > As I have read, -next is supposed to be a vision of what the merge
> > > window will look like after merging everything, i.e. ideally -rc1. For
> > > that to work for files out-of-tree (like these ones, which are not
> > > maintained by a single tree), changes should be allowed to be stacked
> > > on each other; otherwise, we cannot handle conflicts :-(
> >
> > The rule is the same as with a regular mainline pull; I don't have the
> > reference at hand but in some recent-ish pull request Linus said he
>
> That is actually the first problem: there is no
> reference/documentation at hand. :-P
>

Yes, and one of the topics for Maintainers Summit is to create one. One
is actually in the works led by Dan Williams.

-- Steve

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