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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/6] gpio: dt-bindings: Add documentation for gpio controllers on Armada 7K/8K
On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 10:08:16AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 3:06 PM, Gregory CLEMENT
> <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com> wrote:
> > On mar., mai 23 2017, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> >> Please rebase and resend the rest of the patches.
> >
> > Actually I was wrong with my assumption that there was no dependency.
> > For the binding documentation there is dependecy accross the series I
> > sent.
> >
> > This patch depends on "pinctrl: dt-bindings: add documentation for AP806
> > pin controllers" [1] and "pinctrl: dt-bindings: add documentation for
> > CP110 pin controllers" [3] from the series "Add support for the pin
> > controllers on the Marvell Armada 7K/8K".
> >
> > As you are maintainer of both gpio and pinctrl subsystem it will be easy
> > to resolv.
>
> Please send all patches in one big series in that case, so I can apply
> them all to a branch and merge that branch into both trees.
>
> > But these last patches depend also on "clk: mvebu: ap806: introduce a
> > new binding" [3] in the clock series "Improve ap806 clk support on
> > Marvell Armada 7K/8K" and on "clk: mvebu: cp110: introduce a new
> > binding" [4] in the clock series "Improve cp110 clk support on Marvell
> > Armada 7K/8K".
>
> That sounds messy.
>
> > So for these particular patches, either I rebase them on the v4.12-rc2
> > and there will be a small merge conflict during the merge window for
> > v4.13, or we can ask a stable branch with only these few patches (I am
> > adding the clock maintainer to this email).
> >
> > If we chose this last option I can split the clock patches to have patch
> > modifying only the binding documentation.
>
> I think you can make a patch just modifying the binding documentation
> and then apply that patch to *both* trees, just make sure the patch
> is *final* and not applied in different versions in clk and pinctrl.

I thought we try to avoid doing that.

> I think cross-tree branches for documentation clashes is too much
> bureaucracy.

I can just take all the doc patches separately. Or you can take the
clock one too.

> Make sure your clock patch is finalized and preferably also applied
> to the clk tree then put it in the bottom of the patch set you send
> to me as well and I will proceed like above.
>
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij

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