Thread (13 messages) 13 messages, 3 authors, 2016-10-29

[PATCH v3 3/6] dt-bindings: pinctrl: Deprecate sunxi pinctrl bindings

From: Maxime Ripard <hidden>
Date: 2016-10-26 22:11:40
Also in: linux-devicetree, linux-gpio, lkml

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
quoted
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
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