From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the arm-soc tree with the usb tree Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 17:25:23 +0200 Message-ID: <521CC4E3.8030204@linutronix.de> References: <20130827181353.319c150858829df1bb68d60b@canb.auug.org.au> <521C6961.9020103@linutronix.de> <521CA888.1080909@baylibre.com> <521CAF59.1090203@linutronix.de> <521CB046.9070408@baylibre.com> <878uznxjnl.fsf@linaro.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <878uznxjnl.fsf@linaro.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Kevin Hilman Cc: Benoit Cousson , Javier Martinez Canillas , Stephen Rothwell , Greg KH , Arnd Bergmann , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Felipe Balbi , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, Olof Johansson , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-next.vger.kernel.org On 08/27/2013 05:01 PM, Kevin Hilman wrote: >>> What do we do now? >> >> Cannot you just merge the stable arm-soc/dt branch into your branch >> before applying your patches? > > Unfortunately, the next/dt branch of arm-soc is not necessarily stable > so should *not* be merged. In fact none of the arm-soc branches should > be considered stable. > > As was already mentioned, this should be split up into driver changes > and DTS changes through arm-soc. They'll both merge for v3.12. But splitting will break the driver until .dts & code is in sync again. > BTW, how did this patch get merged without a signoff/ack from the OMAP > DT maintainer in the first place? Hmm, looks like Benoit was not copied > nor was linux-omap or linux-arm-kernel copied in the original mails. Hmm. I had Benoit's okay [0] to do the change "as long as Felipe is fine with it". I indeed forgot to Cc Benoit on the dts changes. For the phy-rename Felipe pinged you and we did the topic-branch, here I forgot. > > Kevin [0] http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg88423.html Sebastian