Re: [PATCH 000/114] clk: convert drivers from deprecated round_rate() to determine_rate()

[Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>]

On 22/08/2025 15:09, Brian Masney wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2025 at 02:23:50PM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> On 22/08/2025 13:32, Brian Masney wrote:
>>> 7 of the 114 patches in this series needs a v2 with a minor fix. I see
>>> several paths forward to merging this. It's ultimately up to Stephen how
>>> he wants to proceed.
>>>
>>> - I send Stephen a PULL request with all of these patches with the minor
>>>   cleanups to the 7 patches. Depending on the timing, Stephen can merge
>>>   the other work first, and I deal with cleaning up the merge conflicts.
>>>   Or he can if he prefers to instead.
>>>
>>> - Stephen applies everyone else's work first to his tree, and then the
>>>   good 107 patches in this series. He skips anything that doesn't apply
>>>   due to other people's work and I follow up with a smaller series.
>>
>> Both cause cross tree merge conflicts. Anyway, please document clearly
>> the dependencies between patches.
> 
> This series only touches drivers/clk, so it shouldn't cause any issues
> with other subsystems, unless there's a topic branch somewhere, or I'm
> missing something?

Individual maintainers handle subdirectories.

> 
> There are some drivers under drivers/clk/ where there is an entry in the
> MAINTAINERS file that's not Stephen, although it wasn't clear to me if
> all of those people will send PULL requests to Stephen. I described on
> the cover how how the series was broken up.
> 
>   - Patches 4-70 are for drivers where there is no clk submaintainer
>   - Patches 71-110 are for drivers where this is an entry in MAINTAINERS
>     (for drivers/clk)

It's hidden between multiple other descriptions of patches, so I really
would not think that this means that it is okay by individual maintainer
to take the patch.

This really should be the one most important part of the cover letter
for something like this.
..

Best regards,
Krzysztof