On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:44:50AM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:

Hi Mike and others,

I am finding difficulty in creating branch to be pulled in by Mike for clock
stuff. Somebody please help.

SPEAr patches have dependency on few patchsets that are pulled in linux-next
already.
- SPEAr DT support
- SPEAr Pinctrl support
- Mike clk fixes
- Misc Pinctrl patches

I'm basically running into the same situation.  I have a bunch of mxs DT
patches touching the existing clock code, while I'm converting the clock
to framework and put the code into drivers/clk.  I originally thought
that the new mxs clock should go through Mike's tree since they are
sitting in drivers/clk.  But with a second thought, I feel it might be
easier to still have them go through arm-soc tree.

We can ask Arnd, Olof to pull clkdev from Russell, clk core from Mike,
and pinctrl from Linus into arm-soc as dependencies, take all the
platform clock/pinctrl porting into arm-soc, and sort out the conflicts
in arm-soc tree.  Otherwise, I'm a little worried about that we will
probably upset Torvalds with leaving so many conflicts to him.

So in short, I will send my mxs clock series to Arnd and Olof.

Regards,
Shawn

Now, how should i create branch for SPEAr clk stuff over these dependencies?
I tried to create a merge of first 3, but couldn't get a linux-next/master
sha of a branch for Last dependency.

Should i cherrypick that one?

At last, i believe this branch, that i would create, must be in a compilable
state? So, i can't just send a pull request for my clock patches rebased over
Mike's branch directly?