Re: [GIT PULL] Immutable branch between MFD, Misc and Pinctrl due for the v6.17 merge window

[Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>]

On Fri, 18 Jul 2025, Mark Brown wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 08:13:44AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> > On Thu, 10 Jul 2025, Mark Brown wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 10:49:06AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> 
> > > > Immutable branch between MFD, Misc and Pinctrl due for the v6.17 merge window
> 
> > > Is there some reason you didn't also pick up the regulator patches?
> 
> > Is that a joke?  I'm going to assume that you're not serious!
> 
> There's two things here.  One is that the discussions you've linked were
> from back in April/May which was before the merge window and things only
> got applied a day or two before the merge window opened.   Then rather
> than resending after the merge window as expected whoever it was
> complained about the patches not being applied just did that with no
> further context and it didn't occur to me to look at the date and as a
> result I missed that, sorry.
> 
> The other issue is that due to the constant drip of MFD serieses getting
> resends what I'm doing I'm just glancing at the relevant patches and
> then not looking further if I've already reviewed them.  I frequently
> have no recollection of any individual series, especially if there's
> been non-trivial time since I actively looked at it.

This is bigger than these particular series.  There are more examples,
but I stopped at the three most recent ones.

For the past decade or so I've been taking cross-subsystem patch-sets
and submitting pull-requests to all other maintainers, after testing of
course.  However, more recently you have become increasingly vocal in
terms of an alternative approach, whereby I apply the set without
patches that pertain to your AoR (usually Regulators) and submit an
immutable branch for you to pull from.  I have attempted both recently
and each has received criticism, showing preference for the other.

Honestly, I don't mind which strategy we put into place.  Let's just
agree on one and go with it.

-- 
Lee Jones [李琼斯]