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:

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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

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Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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