Re: [PATCH v20 5/5] arm64: dts: qcom: sc7180-trogdor: Add nodes for onboard USB hub

[Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>]

On 15/02/2022 19:55, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 09:54:54AM -0800, Doug Anderson wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 11:21 AM Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 11:57:20AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 12:43:45PM -0800, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
>>>>> Add nodes for the onboard USB hub on trogdor devices. Remove the
>>>>> 'always-on' property from the hub regulator, since the regulator
>>>>> is now managed by the onboard_usb_hub driver.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>
>>>>> Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>
>>>>> Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
>>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>> No DT maintainer approval yet?  :(
>>>
>>> Bjorn usually just picks DT changes into the QCOM tree when they are
>>> ready, so I wouldn't interpret anything into the lack of an explicit
>>> Ack.
>>
>> Right, so the expectation is that this patch wouldn't land through the
>> USB tree but would instead land through the Qualcomm tree, probably a
>> revision after the code lands in the USB tree to avoid dependency
>> problems.
> 
> But our tools pick up the whole series.  I can't just do "i will pick
> patches 1-4 only" easily, and neither can any other maintainer.

I don't have problems picking individual patches - either b4 am on each
patch or on entire series and dropping later unneeded commits.

> 
> Why not just get their ack so that I know it can come through the USB
> tree?  That's what normally happens for other changes like this where a
> driver change is required first.

DTS is a description of the hardware and we take it via separate
branches of SoC-fami0ly repositories. These are always separated from
the driver changes. Always. For several reasons:
1. By convention,
2. To be sure there is no dependency on driver code thus an ABI break,
3. To have a nice and clean history of DTS changes, properly organized.

What is more, if this was coming via my Samsung SoC tree towards SoC
folks, I could not take it in one branch. I would need to physically
split it, otherwise Arnd/Olof would bounce back my pull request saying I
am mixing DTS with driver. Of course you do not have such requirement -
I am just saying that splitting DTS is quite common and proper way.


Best regards,
Krzysztof