Re: [GIT PULL] ARM: at91: soc for 5.12

From: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com>
To: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	SoC Team <soc@kernel.org>, arm-soc <arm@kernel.org>,
	Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches@microchip.com>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>,
	linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] ARM: at91: soc for 5.12
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2021 18:05:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7131cfc0-2519-8bbe-a380-609eced61753@microchip.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210122163520.GG1196852@piout.net>

On 22/01/2021 at 17:35, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
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> On 22/01/2021 16:25:47+0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 3:35 PM <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> From: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com>
>>>
>>> Arnd, Olof,
>>>
>>> I'm taking back the lead on sending the pull-requests for AT91 and hope that I
>>> didn't loose the knowledge in the meantime. Tell me if there's something I'm
>>> missing. Thanks a lot to Alexandre who kept our flow steady and very
>>> predictable during all those years!
>>>
>>> Here are the first SoC changes for 5.12 which contain a single patch for multi
>>> platform kernels.
>>>
>>> I plan to send another pull-request for the SoC changes related to new sama7g5
>>> that Claudiu sent to the mainling-list recently. I'll let it mature in
>>> linux-next by the beginning of next week and will send another pull-request by
>>> mid-next-week.
>>> Tell me if you see a problem with this approach.
>>
>> This all looks good to me, but I think I'd rather take the 'soc' pull request
>> into the v5.11 bugfixes, as this may already affect users on other machines.
>>
>> I would also suggest adding a 'Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org' tag. If you like,
>> I can just cherry-pick that patch into the fixes branch and add it there.
>>
> 
> I wouldn't backport it as a fix, this is just a warning, in a
> configuration that is very unlikely to be used (and honestly, I
> wouldn't enable this driver on any platform).
> 
> If you take it as a fix, you'll have to also get
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/1611318097-8970-5-git-send-email-claudiu.beznea@microchip.com/

Arnd, Alexandre,

Whatever you prefer is fine with me. As I'm not the first impacted I 
wouldn't push in one direction or another.

Best regards,
-- 
Nicolas Ferre

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