Re: [v7,49/50] drivers/of: Export OF changeset functions

Rob Herring
2016-01-13T23:54:13Z

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 3:20 PM, Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 08:18:06AM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>> On Wed, 2016-01-13 at 14:54 +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
>> > On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 12:12:49AM +1100, Gavin Shan wrote:
>> > > The PowerNV PCI hotplug driver is going to use the OF changeset
>> > > to manage the changed device sub-tree. This exports those OF
>> > > changeset functions for that.
>> > >
>> > > Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> > > Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
>> >
>> > I needed something like this, too [1] and rebased my series on top of
>> > this patch. So:
>> >
>> > Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
>> > Tested-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
>>
>> OK. This series is kind of in limbo, it might hit 4.6, but it might not. So if
>> you need this patch before then you should probably pull it in to your series,
>> or ask Rob to merge it pre-emptively.
>
> Yup, this is what I had in mind, too.

Given this has been on the list some time and still works, I've
applied this for 4.5. That should simplify dependencies for 4.6.

Rob