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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Emil Goode <emilgoode@gmail.com>
Cc: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>,
	"Shawn Guo" <shawn.guo@freescale.com>,
	"Sascha Hauer" <kernel@pengutronix.de>,
	"Russell King" <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	"Dan Carpenter" <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
	"Alexander Shiyan" <shc_work@mail.ru>,
	"Marc Kleine-Budde" <mkl@pengutronix.de>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: imx: introduce function imx_free_mx3_camera
Date: Sat, 24 May 2014 13:05:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140524200500.GB1023@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140524152200.GA4666@lianli>

On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 05:22:00PM +0200, Emil Goode wrote:
> Hello Uwe and Greg,
> 
> > You'd do a better deed if you picked up
> > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1613364/focus=1635995
> 
> Since there is nothing wrong with the last version of the patch in
> the above thread, I feel strange about picking it up and just splitting
> it into two patches. However it would be good to have it applied.
> 
> I think the reason why the author didn't resend is that the object file
> and data structure layout information in the changelog depend on the
> changes to both .name and .dma_mask and by splitting the patch this
> information would not apply to any one of the resulting two patches.
> 
> Perhaps keeping this information in the changelog is a good reason for
> applying the patch as it is?

If you read the thread, I explained why I didn't want to take the patch
as-is.  Please feel free to break it up as asked for and I'll be glad to
consider it then.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-24 20:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-22 17:51 [PATCH] ARM: imx: introduce function imx_free_mx3_camera Emil Goode
2014-05-22 18:10 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2014-05-22 18:58   ` Emil Goode
2014-05-23  6:50   ` Philippe Rétornaz
2014-05-24 15:22   ` Emil Goode
2014-05-24 20:05     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2014-05-24 21:17       ` Uwe Kleine-König
2014-05-22 20:44 ` Dan Carpenter

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