How to merge? (was Re: [PATCH][v4] livepatch/ppc: Enable livepatching on powerpc)

[Jiri Kosina]

On Fri, 4 Mar 2016, Michael Ellerman wrote:

> Obviously it depends heavily on the content of my series, which will go into
> powerpc#next, so it would make sense if this went there too.
> 
> I don't see any changes in linux-next for livepatch, so merging it via powerpc
> would probably work fine and not cause any conflicts, unless there's some
> livepatch changes pending for 4.6 that aren't in linux-next yet?
> 
> The other option is that I put my ftrace changes and this in a topic branch
> (based on v4.5-rc3), and then that can be merged into both powerpc#next and the
> livepatch tree.

This aligns with my usual workflow, so that'd be my preferred way of doing 
things; i.e. you put all the ftrace changes into a separate topic branch, 
and then

- you pull that branch into powerpc#next
- I pull that branch into livepatching tree
- I apply the ppc livepatching support on top of that
- I send a pull request to Linus only after powerpc#next gets merged to 
  Linus' tree

Sounds good?

> Also regardless of who takes it an Ack from Steve for the ftrace changes 
> would be good.

Absolutely.

Thanks!

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs