On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 12:01:46PM +0800, Jiaxun Yang wrote:
> Also we're going to separate code between
> Loongson2 and Loongson3 since they are becoming more and more
> identical.
Do you mean you want to combine them?
> But It will cause a lot of changes under march of loongson64
> that currently maintaining by linux-mips community. Send plenty of
> patches to mailing list would not be a wise way to do that. So we can
> PR these changes to linux-next directly and PR to linux-mips before
> merge window.
For the avoidance of doubt, a pull request would not excempt you from
needing your patches properly reviewed on the mailing lists first.
And quoting Stephen's boilerplate response to linux-next additions:
> Thanks for adding your subsystem tree as a participant of linux-next. As
> you may know, this is not a judgement of your code. The purpose of
> linux-next is for integration testing and to lower the impact of
> conflicts between subsystems in the next merge window.
>
> You will need to ensure that the patches/commits in your tree/series have
> been:
> * submitted under GPL v2 (or later) and include the Contributor's
> Signed-off-by,
> * posted to the relevant mailing list,
> * reviewed by you (or another maintainer of your subsystem tree),
> * successfully unit tested, and
> * destined for the current or next Linux merge window.
>
> Basically, this should be just what you would send to Linus (or ask him
> to fetch). It is allowed to be rebased if you deem it necessary.
Cheers
James
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