From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lee Jones Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] mfd: ti-lmu: Remove LM3532 backlight driver references Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2019 03:44:36 +0100 Message-ID: <20190404024436.GA6830@dell> References: <20190321142838.22985-1-dmurphy@ti.com> <20190321142838.22985-3-dmurphy@ti.com> <8769a95d-179f-6219-0a63-9dd623cdd297@gmail.com> <20190325075317.GW4731@dell> <20190403075709.GD11301@dell> <8b771488-a914-0d75-6e9b-9a67b4c5017e@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8b771488-a914-0d75-6e9b-9a67b4c5017e@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Jacek Anaszewski Cc: Dan Murphy , robh+dt@kernel.org, pavel@ucw.cz, tony@atomide.com, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-leds@vger.kernel.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 03 Apr 2019, Jacek Anaszewski wrote: > On 4/3/19 9:57 AM, Lee Jones wrote: > > On Mon, 25 Mar 2019, Jacek Anaszewski wrote: > > > > > On 3/25/19 8:53 AM, Lee Jones wrote: > > > > On Sat, 23 Mar 2019, Jacek Anaszewski wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi Lee, > > > > > > > > > > Can we have your ack for this going via LED tree, please? > > > > > > > > Patch looks okay. > > > > > > > > You can take it through the LED, but if you do I will need you to send > > > > me a pull-request to a minimised immutable branch please. > > > > > > > > If you cannot do this, I can apply the set and provide the same to > > > > you. > > > > > > > > If you choose the former: > > > > > > > > Acked-for-MFD-by: Lee Jones > > > > > > > > Please let me know what you decide > > > > > > > > > > I've been exposing integration branches in the past, but after Linus' > > > message [0] I have my doubts now. I wonder if it wouldn't make more > > > sense if I just took the patches, and you'd cherry-pick them only in > > > case such a need occurs. This way we would avoid this whole merge > > > noise, which in an optimistic and very plausible case will not be needed > > > at all. > > > > > > [0] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/4/19/1104 > > > > That email is 2 years old, and does not seem relevant to what we're > > trying to achieve. I've only ever had issues when *not* creating > > immutable branches for these, cross subsystem scenarios. The > > shared branches I create are always minimalist and never change. > > > > I'm happy to take the patches and create a suitable pull-request for > > you if you are uncomfortable with the process. I just need your Ack > > to do so. Up to you. > > I don't have any problem with the process. The clear gain of cherry > picking is more linear history. And the branch can be always created > when such a need occurs in linux-next. > > That being said, I will send you a pull request once we sort out > the problem with obtaining a reference to the backlight node. Sounds good. Thanks Jacek. -- Lee Jones [李琼斯] Linaro Services Technical Lead Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog