vhost stable branch

Michael S. Tsirkin
Tue, 23 May 2023 11:45:31 -0000

On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 08:38:47AM +0000, Dragos Tatulea
wrote:
> On Tue, 2023-05-23 at 04:18 -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 07:16:58AM +0000, Dragos Tatulea wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am looking for the stable branch for vdpa fixes in the vhost
tree [1].
> > > There
> > > are 3 branches that seem identical: linux-next, test and vhost.
linux-next
> > > seems
> > > to be -next branch. Which one would be the stable branch?
> > >
> > > [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost.git
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Dragos
> >
> > I don't publish one until I am ready to send patches to Linus.
> > Which should be today or tomorrow.
> >
> Understood. Is it the same with patches for -next? Are they published only
once
> the patches are sent to Linus?
>
> Thanks,
> Dragos
>

A bit different. I start worrying about next when I'm done with stable.
Also my next branch rebases frequently, I also drop and squash patches,
rewrite commit log etc.

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