Re: [GIT PULL] sound updates for 4.17-rc1

2018-04-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 06:31:37PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 6:11 PM, Mark Brown wrote: [No signature, managed to leave my smartcard at home, sorry :/] > >> (3) if you are done and ready with a branch, and it's time to just > >> say "the development on this branch is

Re: [GIT PULL] sound updates for 4.17-rc1

2018-04-05 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 6:11 PM, Mark Brown wrote: > >> (3) if you are done and ready with a branch, and it's time to just >> say "the development on this branch is all done, now I will ask >> upstream to pull it, and I'll merge this into my upstream branch" > >> THIS IS NEVER AUTOMATED! > >>

Re: [GIT PULL] sound updates for 4.17-rc1

2018-04-05 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 12:32:52PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > The whole idea with a topic branch is that it's a topic branch. You do > the development on that branch, and then at the END of development you > merge it once and that branch is now *dead*. If you continue using > that branch, you

Re: [GIT PULL] sound updates for 4.17-rc1

2018-04-05 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 12:04 PM, Mark Brown wrote: > > I'm a little bit confused about what's best to do here. The reason I'm > throwing the merge away and redoing it is that you've previously said > that you don't want to see main development branches that contain > nothing but long strings of m

Re: [GIT PULL] sound updates for 4.17-rc1

2018-04-05 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 10:50:26AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Mark, we talked about this already. YOU ARE DOING SOMETHING HORRIBLY > WRONG. You already admitted to automated merging, I already told you > not to do that. Ah, sorry - my impression was rather that the issue was the mess caused b

Re: [GIT PULL] sound updates for 4.17-rc1

2018-04-05 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 11:18 AM, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > All the empty merges were during my previous vacation, so it must have > been the leftover of the previous bad pull request. Oh well. Oh, so they might be from the bad old times when Mark was still doing this, and be a symptom of something

Re: [GIT PULL] sound updates for 4.17-rc1

2018-04-05 Thread Takashi Iwai
On Thu, 05 Apr 2018 19:50:26 +0200, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 1:27 AM, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > > > This became a large update. The changes are scattered widely, > > and majority of them are attributed to ASoC componentization. > > The gitk output made me dizzy, but it's sl