On Wed, Apr 29, 2026 at 07:42:14PM +0200, Linus Probert wrote: > On Wed Apr 29, 2026 at 3:27 PM CEST, Patryk wrote: > > Hi > > Some time ago I managed to upstream one bugfix, now I have more changes but > > I'm wondering how to approach this. > > > > Suppose that I have found a bug and prepared a fix. However, the bug and > > its solution has been found and tested on a custom board that is equipped > > with a particular buggy device. The problem is that I cannot simply use > > mainline/maintainer tree, build it, and run on my board as these source > > trees do not have support for my board, as I use SoC vendor fork (v6.12) > > supplied with their bsp with patches that add support for my board. > > > > It's not mine decision - obviously - me and my team would be very willing > > to use mainline but it would require some effort, time and obviously we > > would not get vendor support in case of some bugs (it happened mamy times). > > > > I can of course take the minimal set of patches for out board and apply > > them over mainline but e.g. now I have a bugfix for mainline driver...but > > in order to fully test it I need vendor changes as they did not upstream it > > yet. > > > > So at the end in order to test a bugfix on the mainline I would need to > > apply patches that add support for my board as well patches from vendor > > fork that add support for the rest of the functionality (not yet upstreamed > > by vendor) that I need in order to test the bugfix. > > > > Any sugestion on how to approach this? I have already few changes that > > could be applied to mainline but due to what I described above they're just > > waiting... > > > > Will be grateful for some sugestion. > > > > Best regards > > Patryk > > Hi Patryk, > > if your patches can't be applied without first applying the vendors > patches then there's not much you can do is there. Your fixes won't > apply. > > If your patches do apply to staging-next and they do fix your issue > isn't that enough to submit them? You should be able to explain how you > have confirmed the fixes even though it requires some steps to get > there. > > You can always submit a patch-tree to linux-staging with an RFC prefix > and you will get feedback based on that. Either you get a no or a yes. > Worth testing IMO.
What does the staging tree have to do with this? confused, greg k-h _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list [email protected] https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
