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 > <maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > 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 > > 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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