From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Walleij Subject: Re: [rtc-linux] Re: [PATCH V5 3/3] drivers/rtc/rtc-as3722: add RTC driver Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 10:08:54 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1381321761-8898-1-git-send-email-ldewangan@nvidia.com> <1381321761-8898-4-git-send-email-ldewangan@nvidia.com> <20131010152446.1715e64b70ddd0281a3971e9@linux-foundation.org> <20131010224748.GW21581@sirena.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20131010224748.GW21581@sirena.org.uk> Sender: linux-gpio-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "rtc-linux@googlegroups.com" Cc: Andrew Morton , Laxman Dewangan , Lee Jones , Samuel Ortiz , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org" , Rob Herring , Mark Rutland , Pawel Moll , Stephen Warren , Rob Landley , "ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk" , Grant Likely , Florian Lobmaier List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 12:47 AM, Mark Brown wrote: > On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 03:24:46PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: >> On Wed, 9 Oct 2013 17:59:21 +0530 Laxman Dewangan wrote: > >> > +config RTC_DRV_AS3722 >> > + tristate "ams AS3722 RTC driver" >> > + depends on MFD_AS3722 > >> ... the rtc patch depends on an mfd patch, so everyone ends up sitting >> around looking at everyone else, wondering who will merge it all. > > With the MFD ones providing you trust the interfaces with the core > are going to be OK there's no problem to just merge them via individual > trees - the dependency on the MFD will prevent bisection problems. Yes this is why I merged the pinctrl portions into the pinctrl tree. We do have some indication that the MFD driver is in good shape and will be accepted. In the worst case (if it's not getting in through the same merge window or the next) we can just revert it. Yours, Linus Walleij