Subject: Re: linux-next: duplicate patches in the tip tree

From: Thomas Gleixner <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 13:56:02 +0100

On Tue, Mar 11 2025 at 22:43, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Mar 2025 02:02:40 -0700 Andrew Morton <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> There's presumably a better way of doing this, but it's really the
>> first time it has happened in N years so it isn't obviously worth
>> investing in setting something up.
>
> This is why we have shared stable branches.  If the tip guys have all
> those commits in a branch that they guarantee will not rebase (or be
> rewritten), then you could fetch that branch and merge it into your
> tree somewhere.

tip timers/vdso is stable and won't be rebased. It might get delta fixes
on top, but that should be not a problem.

Andrew, feel free to pull that in.

Thanks,

        tglx