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SubjectRe: linux-next: Signed-off-by missing for commit in the drm-misc tree
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On 2023-11-13 22:08, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Luben,
>
> BTW, cherry picking commits does not avoid conflicts - in fact it can
> cause conflicts if there are further changes to the files affected by
> the cherry picked commit in either the tree/branch the commit was
> cheery picked from or the destination tree/branch (I have to deal with
> these all the time when merging the drm trees in linux-next). Much
> better is to cross merge the branches so that the patch only appears
> once or have a shared branches that are merged by any other branch that
> needs the changes.
>
> I understand that things are not done like this in the drm trees :-(

Hi Stephen,

Thank you for the clarification--understood. I'll be more careful in the future.
Thanks again! :-)
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Regards,
Luben
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