Re: [GIT PULL] Immutable branch between MFD, ARM, IIO and PWM due for the v4.10 merge window

Lee Jones
2017-01-24T08:09:21Z

On Mon, 23 Jan 2017, Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 4:12 AM, Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> wrote:
> > Arm, IIO and PWM Maintainers,
> >
> > Enjoy!
> >
> > The following changes since commit 7ce7d89f48834cefece7804d38fc5d85382edf77:
> >
> > Linux 4.10-rc1 (2016-12-25 16:13:08 -0800)
> >
> > are available in the git repository at:
> >
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lee/mfd.git ib-mfd-arm-iio-pwm-v4.10
> >
> > for you to fetch changes up to 94df449273475980a39f1bf47f1e3d2b07ce6577:
> >
> > ARM: dts: stm32: Enable pwm1 and pwm3 for stm32f469-disco (2017-01-23 12:06:28 +0000)
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > Immutable branch between MFD, ARM, IIO and PWM due for the v4.10 merge window
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > Benjamin Gaignard (8):
> > dt-bindings: mfd: Add bindings for STM32 Timers driver
> > mfd: Add STM32 Timers driver
> > dt-bindings: pwm: Add STM32 bindings
> > pwm: Add driver for STM32 plaftorm
> > iio: Add bindings for STM32 timer trigger driver
> > iio: Add STM32 timer trigger driver
> > ARM: dts: stm32: add Timers driver for stm32f429 MCU
> > ARM: dts: stm32: Enable pwm1 and pwm3 for stm32f469-disco
> >
> > .../ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio-timer-stm32 | 29 ++
> > .../bindings/iio/timer/stm32-timer-trigger.txt | 23 ++
> > .../devicetree/bindings/mfd/stm32-timers.txt | 46 +++
> > .../devicetree/bindings/pwm/pwm-stm32.txt | 35 ++
> > arch/arm/boot/dts/stm32f429.dtsi | 275 ++++++++++++++
> > arch/arm/boot/dts/stm32f469-disco.dts | 28 ++
> > drivers/iio/trigger/Kconfig | 9 +
> > drivers/iio/trigger/Makefile | 1 +
> > drivers/iio/trigger/stm32-timer-trigger.c | 342 ++++++++++++++++++
> > drivers/mfd/Kconfig | 11 +
> > drivers/mfd/Makefile | 2 +
> > drivers/mfd/stm32-timers.c | 80 +++++
> > drivers/pwm/Kconfig | 9 +
> > drivers/pwm/Makefile | 1 +
> > drivers/pwm/pwm-stm32.c | 398 +++++++++++++++++++++
> > include/linux/iio/timer/stm32-timer-trigger.h | 62 ++++
> > include/linux/mfd/stm32-timers.h | 71 ++++
> > 17 files changed, 1422 insertions(+)
> > create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio-timer-stm32
> > create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/timer/stm32-timer-trigger.txt
> > create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/stm32-timers.txt
> > create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pwm/pwm-stm32.txt
> > create mode 100644 drivers/iio/trigger/stm32-timer-trigger.c
> > create mode 100644 drivers/mfd/stm32-timers.c
> > create mode 100644 drivers/pwm/pwm-stm32.c
> > create mode 100644 include/linux/iio/timer/stm32-timer-trigger.h
> > create mode 100644 include/linux/mfd/stm32-timers.h
>
> May I ask why you're creating an immutable branch of all this contents?
>
> We should get the dts/dtsi contents like usual from any maintainer;
> just the DT updates in a branch.
>
> Sometimes (but less and less due to us discouraging the use) we need
> an immutable branch that includes dt-include updates. But I don't see
> any of those in this contents.
>
> I.e. I guess I can see the need between mfd and downstream trees
> (iio/pwm), but not the DTS contents at this time. Or am I missing
> something here?

I agree with you. However, since one of the STM32 Maintainers Acked
the DTS patches, and the other one hasn't been heard from for months,
I took that to mean he wanted me to apply and take them through the
MFD tree.

A misunderstanding or misaction perhaps, but this is the normal
assumption.

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Lee Jones
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