On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 10:55:47AM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:

On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 8:52 AM Dmitry Torokhov
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

If we agree in principle, I would like to have the very first 3 patches
in an immutable branch off maybe -rc8 so that it can be pulled into
individual subsystems so that patches switching various drivers to
fwnode_gpiod_get_index() could be applied.

I think it seems a bit enthusiastic to have non-GPIO subsystems
pick up these changes this close to the merge window so my plan
is to merge patches 1.2.3 (1 already merged) and then you could
massage the other subsystems in v5.4-rc1.

But if other subsystems say "hey we want do fix this in like 3 days"
then I'm game for an immutable branch as well.

No, if it is still has a chance for -rc1 then I'm good. I was thinking
if it does not go into -rc1 I could convince some of them merge a
targeted immutable branch off -rc8 or 5.3 final and then apply patches
relevant to their subsystems so we do not have to wait till 5.6 to land
everything.

Thanks.

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Dmitry