On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 09:07:30PM +0200, Petr Štetiar wrote: > Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> [2019-05-03 13:34:56]: > > Hi, > > > On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 09:56:05AM +0200, Petr Štetiar wrote: > > > There was NVMEM support added to of_get_mac_address, so it could now > > > return NULL and ERR_PTR encoded error values, so we need to adjust all > > > current users of of_get_mac_address to this new fact. > > > > Which commit added NVMEM support? It hasn't hit net-next or linux-next > > yet... Very strange. > > this patch is a part of the patch series[1], where the 1st patch[2] adds this > NVMEM support to of_get_mac_address and follow-up patches are adjusting > current of_get_mac_address users to the new ERR_PTR return value. Basically all the patches need to be folded together otherwise you're breaking git bisectibility. Imagine that we just apply patch #1 right? Then all the callers will be broken. It's not allowed. regards, dan carpenter
