Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] clk: en7523: Add support for selecting SCU serdes

[Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>]

On 09-10-26, 19:22, Christian Marangi (Ansuel) wrote:

> > > >
> > > > is it possible to have a stable branch/signed tag for phy subsystem?
> > > > Commit 11952173d8a180ac05641775f80bd6946327478f is needed
> > > > to permit correct compilation of a airoha usb phy driver.
> > >
> > > Yes. I'll have to rebase the clk-next tree but it's no big deal.
> > >
> > > I'm at Linux Plumbers right now and I'll send out an immutable tag in a
> > > day or two.
> >
> > I looked into creating an immutable branch, however as I mentioned it's
> > going to require rebasing clk-next (actually clk-pile). I'm willing to
> > do that, however I realized after I sent my last email that the laptop
> > I'm working on right now in Europe only has access to my kernel.org
> > account. So I'd have to rebase all of the prior commits and add my korg
> > Signed-off-by since it's going to change the committer on lots of
> > commits from my Red Hat to korg account.  I don't want to do that.
> >
> > Given that we're this close to the merge window, I'd like to avoid any
> > kind of risky operations on the tree this close to assembling a pull for
> > Linus. If I can be convinced this is particularly pressing for v7.4 I'm
> > willing to entertain the request, but I wouldn't be able to do it until
> > Monday when I'm back in the US.

I would be on same lines. Considering we are _very_ close to merge
windows, I would be very hesitant to rebase my tree
> >
> 
> Thanks a lot for the effort. No, no need to hurry on this.
> 
> It was ideal to have as it's currently blocking 2 other driver for
> submission but it's not worth to cause all these rebase and resign.
> 
> If minimal changes are possible, it's totally ok to wait for Monday.
> 
> If not possible, then rc1 it is.

Yes lets postpone this to rc1.

Also, in future it is strongly recommended that people request folks for
immutable tags when patches are picked (ideally mention in cover) so
that dependencies are taken care of.

Thanks
-- 
~Vinod