[Sound-open-firmware] A branch can be used as to-be-upstreamed?

[Takashi Iwai]

On Tue, 08 Sep 2020 03:47:46 +0200,
Liao, Bard wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sound-open-firmware <sound-open-firmware-bounces at alsa-
> > project.org> On Behalf Of Takashi Iwai
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2020 2:59 AM
> > To: sound-open-firmware at alsa-project.org
> > Subject: [Sound-open-firmware] A branch can be used as to-be-upstreamed?
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > as we got a bug report about the new Dell laptop with SoundWire audio, I
> > tried to build a kernel with the downstream SOF patches, then I noticed that
> > it's not so trivial to get the patches from SOF git tree that are applicable on
> > top of upstream (either sound or Linus) tree.
> > 
> > Do we have a branch that may contain clean commits on top of the recent
> > upstream?  That is, a branch that is regularly rebased, so that each commit
> > can be retrieved as a patch.  Such a branch will make upstream submission
> > easier, and it makes easier for distros to take the downstream patches, too.
> 
> Yes, please see the topic/sof-dev-rebase branch.
> https://github.com/thesofproject/linux/commits/topic/sof-dev-rebase

Thanks, that's it!


Takashi