On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 02:06:11PM +0100, Michal Simek wrote:

I don't think that driver will be broken. You can build them, use them
on out of tree HW. And when this patch is merged to mainline it will be
enabled for xilinx soc.

But if the DT entries are missing, the driver won't load, would it?

TBH I can't see any reason to do merges but if you want to do that way
we can also do it.

The reason is because there's a separate DT tree and all those arm
drivers need DT.

I have already acked EDAC patches to go through other trees too, FWIW.
Which is not optimal either if someone sends fixes ontop but I cannot
apply them yet because the dependent patches are in a different tree.

So yes, there are at least two good reasons for merging a shared branch.

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