Re: (subset) [PATCH v13 0/7] spacemit: introduce P1 PMIC support

[Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>]

On Tue, 16 Sep 2025, Mark Brown wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 09:42:29AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> > On Thu, 11 Sep 2025, Mark Brown wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 11:36:41AM -0500, Alex Elder wrote:
> 
> > > > How should these two patches be merged?  Mark has reviewed the
> > > > regulator patch 3 and Alexandre has acked the RTC patch 4.
> 
> > > We'd both have been expecting them to go via MFD.
> 
> > Why?  I don't see any dependencies between them (usually a shared MFD
> > header-file).  If there are no deps, it should be taken through its own
> > repo, no?
> 
> I used to just apply things but at some point Linus complained about
> cases where the MFD ended up not getting merged (missing the merge
> window or whatever) so I've been treating them like they had an actual
> dependency.

Not sure I've seen any of that from Linus, but I don't doubt you.  The
MFD part has been merged now, so it's save to go ahead and apply the
Regulator part.

-- 
Lee Jones [李琼斯]