Hi Vinod,
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 3:37 PM, Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 11:09:47AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 4:55 AM, Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 10:53:59AM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
>> >> In general Renesas hardware is not documented to the extent where the
>> >> relationship between IP blocks on different SoCs can be assumed although
>> >> they may appear to operate the same way. Furthermore the documentation
>> >> typically does not specify a version for individual IP blocks. For these
>> >> reasons a convention of using the SoC name in place of a version and
>> >> providing SoC-specific compat strings has been adopted.
>> >>
>> >> Although not universally liked this convention is used in the bindings for
>> >> most drivers for Renesas hardware. The purpose of this patch is to
>> >> update the Renesas R-Car DMA Controller driver to follow this convention.
>> >
>> > Applied, thanks
>>
>> This patch (and this patch only) has disappeared from your next branch between
>> January 6 and 7, and thus wasn't included in your pull request for v4.5.
>>
>> Was there a specific reason for that, or was it just an oversight?
>>
>> Note that the added compatible values in in use (in arm-soc/for-next).
>
> That only means I messed up. I apply patches to for-linus or topic branches
> and then merge all topics to for-linus and send that to Linus.
>
> In this case I didn't see this in any of the topics or for-linus which means
> I applied to next which I usually trash and keep rebuiling on latest -rc.
>
> Now git helped me track this commit on a deleted branch (which reminds us
> what a wonderful thing git is... screwed up, dont worrry git is our
> superhero to rescue).
>
> I have cherry-picked this patch and applied to for-4.5 branch and will
> send to Linus in few days along with few more fixes.
Thanks for your prompt action!
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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