From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Maxime Coquelin Subject: Re: [STLinux Kernel] [PATCH v2 0/7] hwrng: Add support for STMicroelectronics' RNG IP Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 16:49:55 +0200 Message-ID: <560BF693.2090405@st.com> References: <1442497557-9271-1-git-send-email-lee.jones@linaro.org> <20150918140756.GK9249@gondor.apana.org.au> <20150918151137.GA10763@gondor.apana.org.au> <20150918155112.GE3218@x1> <20150929142932.GY27197@x1> <20150930134757.GA18408@gondor.apana.org.au> <20150930141539.GD27197@x1> <20150930142812.GA19039@gondor.apana.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20150930142812.GA19039-lOAM2aK0SrRLBo1qDEOMRrpzq4S04n8Q@public.gmane.org> Sender: devicetree-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Herbert Xu , Lee Jones Cc: "devicetree-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , Peter Korsgaard , "kernel-F5mvAk5X5gdBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org" , Kieran Bingham , "linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , Linus Torvalds , linux-crypto-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Fabio Estevam , "linux-arm-kernel-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org" List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On 09/30/2015 04:28 PM, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 03:15:39PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote: >>> I prefer not to merge patches that cannot be tested. Without >>> the DT bits in patch 6 the other five patches are useless. So >>> I think patch 6 should be applied together with the other five >>> which add the driver. >> That's crazy talk. If all subsystem maintainers abide by this rule >> there would be chaos. We'd either need to send pull-requests to each >> other for every set which crossed a subsystems boundary, or 1000's of >> merge conflicts would ensue at merge time. >> >> The (sensible) rule we normally stick to is; as long as there isn't >> a _build_ dependency, then the patches should filter though their >> respective trees; _functional_ dependencies have nothing to do with >> us as maintainers. Another chaos preventing rule we abide by is; thou >> shalt not apply patches belonging to other maintainer's subsystems >> without the appropriate Ack-by and a subsequent "you may take this >> though your tree" and/or "please send me an immutable pull-request". > So you want the series to be merged in two parts via two different > trees where neither can be tested? That sounds crazy to me. > Yes, that's what we want, and that's how people work usually. I will repeat what Lee was saying, what we have to ensure as maintainer is that our tree is building. We will be able to test it with linux-next. Regards, Maxime -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html