[GIT PULL] Immutable branch between MFD, PWM and RTC due for the v5.13 merge window

[Mark Brown]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 12:54:08PM +0100, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> On 10/03/2021 12:39:59+0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:

> > IMHO there are two ways forward: Either someone (Lee again?) creates a
> > new pull request for this series rebased on -rc2; or we accept that
> > these few patches are based on -rc1. For the latter it would be
> > beneficial to merge the tag into a tree that is already based on -rc2.

> The solution is simply for the maintainers merging the immutable branch
> to do that in a branch based on -rc2. Eg. I've rebased rtc-next on -rc2
> (fast forward, I didn't have any patch). I can now merge this branch if
> necessary, problem solved. If you can't rebased, nothing prevents you
> from merging -rc2 in any branch.

That doesn't exactly address the issue - the goal was to reduce the
number of commits that a bisect could hit which have the swapfile bug
but lack the fix.  How serious a few extra commits on a shared branch
really are is of course an open question though.
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