Re: [PATCH] regmap: permit to set reg_update_bits with bulk implementation

Christian Marangi
2022-07-18T20:54:48Z

On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 04:44:23PM +0200, Christian Marangi wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 03:42:06PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 03:48:52PM +0200, Christian Marangi wrote:
> >
> > > thanks, assuming everything went smooth with the merge to linux-next and
> > > no problems arise, can you provide a signed tag?
> >
> > > This is needed for a net-next series that is currently in RFC state as
> > > it does depends on this.
> >
> > > (I had this problem before and it was said that in this kind of
> > > situation I had to ask for a signed tag to merge the related patch in
> > > net-next branch)
> >
> > Oh, it would have been good to know about this when reviewing the patch
> > rather than after the fact - since this hadn't been mentioned it's now
> > applied on the main development branch with everything that's going into
> > the next release rather than on a separate branch for easy merging
> > elsewhere. How urgent is this, given that the merge window is likely to
> > open at the weekend so this'll get sent to Linus at that point - is the
> > driver otherwise near merging?
>
> Ohh sorry, I was too generic in the patch comments and didn't mention it
> was an actual dependency.
>
> It's not too urgent, (I assume) but it was said that it was preferrable
> to have the changes done in 2 weeks window (the one in net-next about
> the working driver). Will ask on net-next and give you news ASAP.
>

Hi Mark,
sorry for the delay, I pointed out this problem with net-next and we
decided to adopt a workaround so this is not urgent anymore and we can
wait the merge window to have this change in net-next.

The required code will be updated later when this change is merged.

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