From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752547AbbJEQCC (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Oct 2015 12:02:02 -0400 Received: from devils.ext.ti.com ([198.47.26.153]:49373 "EHLO devils.ext.ti.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751973AbbJEQB6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Oct 2015 12:01:58 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/5] mfd: tps65912: Remove old driver in preparation for new driver To: Lee Jones References: <1443731874-21362-1-git-send-email-afd@ti.com> <1443731874-21362-3-git-send-email-afd@ti.com> <20151005092820.GF3243@x1> <20151005092903.GG3243@x1> CC: Rob Herring , Pawel Moll , Mark Rutland , Ian Campbell , Kumar Gala , Mark Brown , Alexandre Courbot , Grygorii Strashko , , From: "Andrew F. Davis" Message-ID: <56129EE1.90000@ti.com> Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 11:01:37 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20151005092903.GG3243@x1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org he On 10/05/2015 04:29 AM, Lee Jones wrote: > On Mon, 05 Oct 2015, Lee Jones wrote: > >> On Thu, 01 Oct 2015, Andrew F. Davis wrote: >> >>> The old tps65912 driver is being replaced, delete old driver. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Andrew F. Davis >> >> I already Acked this in v3. >> >> Acked-by: Lee Jones > > Ack can carry, but is there any chance this can be split up for easy > digestion into the respective trees? > I'm not sure, the components are tightly coupled and if one tree has different parts deleted/replaced I'm not sure if this will leave the trees in a compilable state. I think one tree will need to take all the parts. If it was just adding components then this wouldn't be needed, but having old and new together may be a problem.