Re: [PATCH v4 24/24] platform/chrome: cros_ec: Use PM subsystem to manage wakeirq

Mark Hasemeyer
2024-01-03T22:45:17Z

On Wed, Jan 3, 2024 at 3:25 PM Mark Hasemeyer <markhas@chromium.org> wrote:
>
> > The DTS patch would go through the platform maintainer tree and be
> > pulled into the soc tree and sent up to mainline from there. The
> > platform/chrome patch would go through chrome platform tree and then to
> > mainline. The bisection hole will be real.
>
> I thought it would all get merged in the next merge window. How are
> bifurcations like this normally dealt with? Does one wait for the
> first series of patches to land in mainline before submitting
> dependent patches? That could take two merge windows.

The DTS dependency problem must be an exception? How are other
dependency problems resolved? For example, this patch relies on
changes to 'platform_get_irq()' which is in drivers/base/platform.c,
which I imagine is in a different subsystem and gets merged into a
different maintainer's tree.