Re: [GIT PULL] platform-drivers-x86 for 5.19-1

[Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>]

Hi Linus,

On 5/24/22 05:49, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, May 22, 2022 at 1:00 PM Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86.git tags/platform-drivers-x86-v5.19-1
> 
> Hmm.
> 
> Your diffstat doesn't match what I get, and it seems to be because
> you've generated the diffstat based off v5.18-rc1, but you already
> sent me two pull requests with fixes since.
> 
> So your diffstat contained the diffs from those fixes I had already gotten.
> 
> If  you just do "git fetch origin" (replace 'origin' with whatever you
> call the upstream tree) before doing the pull request, git would have
> figured that out.

I did do a "git remote update origin" recently (recent-ish), but
AFAIK that does not help.

I did read somewhere that in cases like this some maintainers
create a branch with a merge of their for-next branch into
say v5.18 in there and then they do a diffstat between the
merge and v5.18 and manually edit the pull-req to replace
the diffstat.

That makes sense to do if say some files have moved / been renamed
after rc1, but that seems overkill in this case since my fixes
pull-reqs weren't that big and did not include any moves/renames ?

Regards,

Hans