Re: [PATCH 00/26] Consolidate patches and add support for new devices

Dmitry Torokhov
2015-11-09T23:03:56Z

On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 02:54:04PM -0800, Andrew Duggan wrote:
> Hi Linus,
>
> Thanks for reviewing!
>
> On 11/09/2015 04:49 AM, Linus Walleij wrote:
> >On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 12:34 AM, Andrew Duggan <aduggan@synaptics.com> wrote:
> >
> >>NOTE: This patch set applies to synaptics-rmi4 branch in
> >>Dmitry Torokhov's input tree.
> >(...)
> >>This patchset applies cleanly to the synaptics-rmi4 branch, but does not
> >>successfully build because the synaptics-rmi4 branch is based on the 3.14
> >(...)
> >>I would suggest updating the synaptics-rmi4 branch to something
> >>more resent.
> >I suggest we stop seeing Dmitry's branch as "master" for RMI4 development.
> >Instead work on the v4.3-rc6-based branch you have at
> >https://github.com/aduggan/linux.git, and then (after the merge window)
> >rebase it to v4.4-rc1 and ask Dmitry to *drop* this old branch and pull in
> >your stuff instead, and then look at the end result of that.
> >
> >Who knows, maybe he thinks it's clean enough to go into v4.5.
> >Or for parts of it to go into v4.5.
> >
> >In any case, surely he's more helped by an up-to-date rebased branch
> >than having to rebase it himself too.
> >
> >>This patch set consolidates some outstanding patches and then builds on
> >>that to add support for new devices.
> >Unless Dmitry is extremely interested in the development history,
> >I suggest to squash the whole thing down to a few patches that
> >begins by adding the bus and infrastructure and then one function per
> >patch.
>
> Ok, I'll rebase things. I realized when I was creating that patch
> set that at some point everything would have to be rebased. But, for
> the time being I was trying to maintain the history to avoid having
> to re-review the existing code. But, at this point it is probably
> better to review the driver as a whole. We will have my current
> branch and Dmitry's branch around if we end up needing the history.

OK, if you are rebasing/respoinning patches let's start with 4.3 - there
is nothing significantly new in input core in 4.4 and I'd rather start
at a stable point.

Thanks.

--
Dmitry