On 2017-12-08 Fri 07:51 +0000,James Hogan Wrote:
> 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?

Sorry, my fault. They're become more and more different and  I'm going
to separate loongson64 into loongson2 and loongson3.

> 
> > 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.

So we can commit by ourselves after subsystem's review to reduce linux-
mips's workload. 
Since Huacai Chen said that we won't send PR, maybe it's unnecessary.
Thanks.

> 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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Jiaxun Yang

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