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Date:   Fri, 8 Apr 2022 10:07:50 -0600
From:   Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
To:     Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 00/11] Fix BUG_ON in vfio_iommu_group_notifier()
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On Fri, 8 Apr 2022 10:59:22 -0500
Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 05:37:16PM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 11:17:47AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:  
> > > You might consider using a linear tree instead of the topic branches,
> > > topics are tricky and I'm not sure it helps a small subsystem so much.
> > > Conflicts between topics are a PITA for everyone, and it makes
> > > handling conflicts with rc much harder than it needs to be.  
> > 
> > I like the concept of a branch per driver, because with that I can just
> > exclude that branch from my next-merge when there are issues with it.
> > Conflicts between branches happen too, but they are quite manageable
> > when the branches have the same base.  
> 
> FWIW, I use the same topic branch approach for PCI.  I like the
> ability to squash in fixes or drop things without having to clutter
> the history with trivial commits and reverts.  I haven't found
> conflicts to be a problem.

Same.  I think I've generally modeled my branch handling after Bjorn
and Joerg, I don't always use topic branches, but will for larger
contributions and I don't generally find conflicts to be a problem.
I'm always open to adopting best practices though.  Thanks,

Alex