Date:   Tue, 31 Jan 2023 11:55:28 -0800
From:   Colin Foster <colin.foster@in-advantage.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 net-next 00/13] add support for the the vsc7512
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On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 11:45:38AM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Jan 2023 09:06:22 +0000 Lee Jones wrote:
> > Please don't do that.  The commits do not have proper Acked-by tags.
> > 
> > The plan is to merge these via MFD and send out a pull-request to an
> > immutable branch.  However, if you're prepared to convert all of the:
> > 
> >   Acked-for-MFD-by: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
> > 
> > to
> > 
> >   Acked-by: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
> 
> Sorry, I must have been blind yesterday because I definitely double
> checked this doesn't touch mfd code. And it does :/
> 
> The patches should not be sent for net-next if they are not supposed 
> to be applied directly. Or at the very least says something about
> merging in the cover letter!

My apologies. I wasn't sure how these cross-tree syncs would be done
(and I recognize Lee even asked during a previous submission.) I'll be
more verbose in cover letters moving forward, should I ever be
submitting against multiple trees like this.