Subject: Re: linux-next: duplicate patches in the char-misc tree

From: Greg KH <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2023 09:01:19 +0100

On Fri, Jun 02, 2023 at 09:54:57AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 2, 2023 at 5:27 AM Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> > The following commits are also in the arm-soc tree as different
> > commits (but the same patches):
> >
> >   b866e7e7f995 ("misc: sram: Generate unique names for subpools")
> >   ca3222ac4477 ("dt-bindings: sram: Add compatible for ST-Ericsson U8500 eSRAM")
> >
> > These are commits
> >
> >   21e5a2d10c8f ("misc: sram: Generate unique names for subpools")
> >   38bd22dac71e ("dt-bindings: sram: Add compatible for ST-Ericsson U8500 eSRAM")
> >
> > in the arm-soc tree.
> 
> Hm hehe I was a bit confused, one misc maintainer (Arnd) merged the patches
> to the SoC tree, and another misc maintainer (Greg) merged them to the
> actual misc tree.
> 
> My misunderstanding that this was handled through SoC like drivers/soc.
> 
> Arnd can you drop this from the SoC tree?

No need to drop them, we can keep them both, no harm :)