[PATCH v3 3/6] dt-bindings: pinctrl: Deprecate sunxi pinctrl bindings
From: Maxime Ripard <hidden>
Date: 2016-10-26 22:11:40
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Hi Linus, On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 02:07:27PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 9:49 PM, Maxime Ripard [off-list ref] wrote:quoted
However, it looks like the first patch from this serie is missing from your tree, is there a reason for that?No can you point it out?
Sure: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2016-October/462500.html
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Also, in order to preserve bisectability, could you create an immutable branch for those sunxi patches so that I can merge the DT bits?It's too late because they are already in the devel branch and mixed up with merged of *other* immutable stuff.
Hmmmm, ok.
However I think it is plain wrong to try to keep any bisectability between the kernel at large and arch/*/boot/dts/*, because the DTS stuff is supposed to at some point be maintained outside of the kernel and for all OSes, they simply shouldn't be sync:ed.
Yes, in the case of a new driver that needs to be introduced, I definitely get your point. However, during a conversion like we're doing here, this is not ideal, because it essentially means that you will not have a branch that works, at all. I'll hold off on those patches until 4.11 then. Thanks! Maxime -- Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 801 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/attachments/20161025/b74e47e6/attachment-0001.sig>