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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