Messages in this thread | | | From | Li Yang <> | Date | Fri, 5 Oct 2018 12:55:41 -0500 | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] for-next updates for soc/fsl drivers for v4.20 take 2 |
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On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 10:40 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 6:47 PM Li Yang <leoyang.li@nxp.com> wrote: > > > > Hi arm-soc maintainers, > > > > Please merge the following updates for next. > > > > PS. One of the patches is depending on the last pull request for fixes to build > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10622883/ > > I didn't include the fix patches directly in this pull request to prevent a > > complicated merge. Please let me know if there is a more preferred approach > > to deal with dependencies between pull requests. > > Sorry, I'd rather not pull it like this, because that would result in a > broken branch on my side that fails to build until it gets merged with > the other one. > > I think the best way to handle this is for you to: > > - start a branch on the afa86d264a7c commit that you already sent me > for 4.20. > - merge the soc-fsl-fix-v4.19-2 branch that you sent me for 4.19 into > that branch > - rebase all patches from tags/soc-fsl-next-v4.20-2 on top of the merge > - resend the pull request with the new branch
Thanks Arnd! Will resubmit with this approach.
> > This will result in a bisectable (i.e. each commit builds and works) branch > that also merges cleanly with my fixes branch. > > Generally speaking, every branch you send must work standalone, > and each commit in that branch can only depend on work that > comes earlier in that branch. > > Arnd
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