Re: (subset) [RFC PATCH 1/2] mfd: 88pm886: add the RTC cell and relevant definitions

[Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>]

On Thu, 10 Oct 2024, Lee Jones wrote:

> On Wed, 09 Oct 2024, Karel Balej wrote:
> 
> > Lee Jones, 2024-10-09T11:06:43+01:00:
> > > On Fri, 20 Sep 2024 18:12:34 +0200, Karel Balej wrote:
> > > > RTC lives on the base register page of the chip. Add definitions of the
> > > > registers needed for a basic set/read time functionality.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > >
> > > Applied, thanks!
> > 
> > Thank you, however I'm a little perplexed.
> > 
> > It was my understanding that RFC patches should not be applied without
> > further agreement, is that not the case? Obviously this patch was very
> > simple and I used RFC mainly because of the RTC driver itself, but I'm
> > curious to know for future submissions.
> 
> I missed the fact that this was an RFC.  I can unapply it if you like?
> 
> > Also, I expected the entire series to go at once through the rtc tree
> > with your ack as while it is not a strict dependency in terms of
> > breakage, the first patch seems rather pointless without the follow-up
> > which could theoretically take a long time to get applied and even some
> > requested changes could require changes to this patch. Could you please
> > explain what the policy is on this?
> 
> The policy is flexible.  However, the generally accepted rule is that if
> there are build-time dependencies between patches, then one maintainer
> (usually me since MFD is usually at the centre of these cross-subsystem
> patch-sets) takes them and sends out a pull-request for an immutable
> branch for the other maintainers to pull from.
> 
> However in this case, there are no build-time dependencies so the
> patches are able to and therefore should go in via their respective
> repos.

Actually, it looks like there are build-time deps between them.

Please break out the inclusion of the additional defines and place them
into the RTC patch.  I will then Ack that one.  The patch making changes
to driver/mfd will still go in via the MFD repo.

-- 
Lee Jones [李琼斯]