Re: [PATCH v6 0/4] Introduce MEN 14F021P00 BMC driver series

Andreas Werner
2014-09-25T07:34:46Z

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 07:41:43PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Sep 2014, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 09:33:32AM -0700, Bryan Wu wrote:
> > > On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 24 Sep 2014, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 03:48:29PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> > > >> > Guenter, Bryan, Wim,
> > > >> >
> > > >> > The following changes since commit 52addcf9d6669fa439387610bc65c92fa0980cef:
> > > >> >
> > > >> > Linux 3.17-rc2 (2014-08-25 15:36:20 -0700)
> > > >> >
> > > >> > are available in the git repository at:
> > > >> >
> > > >> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lee/mfd.git tags/mfd-hwmon-leds-watchdog-v3.18
> > > >> >
> > > >> > for you to fetch changes up to 964356938fcd3c0001a786f55b9f0a0fbe47656a:
> > > >> >
> > > >> > hwmon: (menf21bmc) Introduce MEN14F021P00 BMC HWMON driver (2014-09-24 15:36:33 +0100)
> > > >> >
> > > >> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > > >> > Immutable branch between MFD, HWMON, LEDs and Watchdog for v3.18
> > > >> >
> > > >> I assume you'll push it all through mfd, correct ?
> > > >
> > > > The idea is for all the affected Maintainers to pull this branch in to
> > > > their own trees. If you guys don't, there will be a good chance of
> > > > conflict during the merge-window, which will subsequently upset Linus.
> > > >
> > > > So in answer to your question; yes I'll be taking this, but so should
> > > > each of you.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Thanks for this, man. What am I going to do here? Need I pull in all
> > > the patches here into my LED tree or just one LED patch? I think if
> > > you push this for Linus through MFD tree, I don't need to pull it into
> > > my tree, right?
> > >
> > I did
> >
> > git remote add mfd git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lee/mfd.git
> > git fetch --tags mfd
> > git merge mfd-hwmon-leds-watchdog-v3.18
> >
> > in both my hwmon-next and watchdog-next branches. Both are currently building,
> > and already pushed into to my repository at kernel.org.
> >
> > So, effectively, when I send my pull request to Linus, all patches from
> > mfd-hwmon-leds-watchdog-v3.18 will be included, ie the entire series.
> > The same will happen when Lee sends his pull request, and Wim, and you.
> > I believe that is what Lee is asking for.
>
> That's right. It's not okay to break this branch up. If it was, we
> would have been able to apply our respective components into our own
> trees from the beginning, but as there are interdependencies, breaking
> up the branch could have nasty consequences depending on the order in
> which they land in Mainline. Most likely bisectability will be
> broken, which is not allowed.
>

Hi,
please do not forget the MAINTAINERS Patch for this series.
I have send it last week attached to this series.

Thanks

Regards
Andy

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