From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: thomas.abraham@linaro.org (Thomas Abraham) Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 01:17:32 +0800 Subject: [PATCH 05/10] ARM: Samsung: Update the device names for spi clock lookup In-Reply-To: <20120509142836.GT3955@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> References: <1336514694-22393-1-git-send-email-thomas.abraham@linaro.org> <1336514694-22393-6-git-send-email-thomas.abraham@linaro.org> <20120509085249.GA28702@sirena.org.uk> <20120509142836.GT3955@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Message-ID: To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 9 May 2012 22:28, Mark Brown wrote: > On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 09:40:26PM +0800, Thomas Abraham wrote: >> On 9 May 2012 16:52, Mark Brown wrote: > >> > This should've been squashed into the patch that updated to use driver >> > data in order to avoid breaking bisection. > >> This patch updates clock devname in the platform code and the >> modifications to use driver data is in the driver file. So these two >> changes are kept separate to allow them to be applied to their >> respective trees. > > This means that bisection will be broken - anything with only one tree > won't be able to load the SPI driver successfully until it's merged > with the other which isn't ideal. Yes, we would have that problem until the two trees are merged. But I still prefer not to squash the two patches which already contain huge diff. Thanks, Thomas.