Re: [PATCH v4 00/81] SH pin control and GPIO rework

[Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>]

Hi Simon,

On Monday 07 January 2013 12:03:10 Simon Horman wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 05:40:47PM +0100, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > On Sunday 30 December 2012 09:12:02 Simon Horman wrote:
> > > [ CC: linux-arm-kernel, Olof Johansson, Arnd Bergmann ]
> > > 
> > > On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 11:53:42PM +0100, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > > > Hi everybody,
> > > > 
> > > > Here's the fourth version of the SH pin control and GPIO rework
> > > > patches. The patches have been rebased on top of v3.8-rc1 but are
> > > > otherwise unchanged.
> > > > 
> > > > The series starts with the same additional platform-specific fixes as
> > > > v3 (patches 4 to 7), I would appreciate if someone could review them
> > > > carefully.
> > > > 
> > > > You can get the series from my git tree at
> > > > 
> > > >         git://linuxtv.org/pinchartl/fbdev.git pinmux
> > > > 
> > > > I would like to push this set to v3.9 independently of the later
> > > > rework and OF-related sets. Simon, can you take it in your tree ?
> > > 
> > > Sure.
> > > 
> > > One inconvenience of my tree is that it goes via the arm-soc tree and as
> > > such things need to be split out into branches. I believe in the case of
> > > this series the patches will need to be split across soc, board and pfc
> > > branches. The branches may be based on each other.
> > > 
> > > Do you think the following scheme might work:
> > > 
> > > Patches 1 - 7: sh-soc
> > > Patches 8 - 21: pfc, based on sh-soc
> > > Patches 22 - 29: soc (ARM SoC), based on pfc
> > > Patches 30 - 42: sh-soc2, based on pfc
> > > Patches 43 - 50: pfc2, based on a merge of soc and sh-soc2
> > > Patches 51 - 54: soc2 (ARM SoC), based on pfc2
> > > Patches 55 - 66: pfc3, based on soc2
> > > Patches 67 - 78: sh-soc3, based on pfc3
> > > Patches 79 - 81: pfc4, based on sh-soc3
> > 
> > That looks good to me. Alternatively you could base pfc3 on top of a merge
> > of soc and sh-soc2, and base pfc4 on top of a merge of soc2 and sh-soc3,
> > but you might get conflicts in Kconfig and Makefile (they should be
> > trivial to solve though).
> 
> Thanks, I have used the modified scheme that you describe above and all
> seems well. In detail, I have done the following:
> 
> Patches 1 - 7: sh-soc based on v3.8-rc1
> Patches 8 - 21: pfc, based on sh-soc
> Patches 22 - 29: soc (ARM SoC), based on pfc
> Patches 30 - 42: sh-soc2, based on pfc
> Patches 43 - 50 and 55 - 66: pfc2, based on a merge of soc and sh-soc2
> Patches 51 - 54: soc2 (ARM SoC), based on pfc2
> Patches 67 - 78: sh-soc3, based on pfc2
> Patches 79 - 81: pfc4, based on a merge of soc2 and sh-soc-3
> 
> Assuming that nothing nasty crops I plan to push the result to
> the renesas tree later today.

Thank you.

Linus acked the next patch series but there are still two issues I need to 
solve. I'll repost the patches and send a pull request in the near future.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart