[PATCHv4 0/9] *** ARM: Update arch-vt8500 to Devicetree ***

[linux@prisktech.co.nz (Tony Prisk)]

On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 09:54 +0400, Alexey Charkov wrote:
> 2012/8/24 Tony Prisk <linux@prisktech.co.nz>:
> > On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 05:40 +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >> On Thursday 23 August 2012, Tony Prisk wrote:
> >> > I was about to say that if Mike has any issues with the driver that I
> >> > can fix the patch conflict at the same time, but I just realised that
> >> > its more work than I originally thought :)
> >> >
> >> > I was going to move the arch-vt8500 part of the clocks patch back into
> >> > the clocks patch - but that will just move the issue from arm-soc to
> >> > clocks because Mike's branch won't have the arch-vt8500 patch so the
> >> > patch will fail.
> >>
> >> But that's ok, because without the arch-v8500 part, nothing uses
> >> the vt8500-clock driver, so nothing breaks. You can introduce broken
> >> code in the meantime as long as it's impossible to enable and it will
> >> work afterwards.
> >>
> >>       Arnd
> >
> > You lost me a little bit there :)
> > If it stays as is now, the arch-vt8500 patch will introduce an
> > unresolved symbol.
> > If I move the clock code from the arch-vt8500 patch to the clock patch,
> > then the clock patch won't apply because it needs the arch-vt8500 patch
> > first and Mike won't have that patch, but it would be fine if both
> > patches went in via your tree.
> 
> Why don't you add a #define in the first patch that makes your
> to-be-unresolved symbol a no-op and then drop it within the clock
> patch?
> 
> Best,
> Alexey
> 
Actually - that doesn't resolve the problem unless it all goes in via
the same tree still because the clock patch can only drop the #define if
the arch-vt8500 patch exists still - same as problem #2 I mentioned.

If the clock patch goes via Mikes tree he will need the arch-vt8500
patch as well - don't think it can be avoided.

Still easier to send the whole lot via arm-soc, then at least we can
resolve the patch conflicts without having to apply the patches twice.

Regards
Tony P