Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2017 07:51:35 +0000
From: James Hogan <james.hogan@mips.com>
To: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>
CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Huacai Chen <chenhc@lemote.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        "Stephen Rothwell" <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] About MIPS/Loongson maintainance
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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.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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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