> Patch #1 and #4 are minor cleanups which follow the boyscout rule: > "Always leave the campground cleaner than you found it." > I > am also looking for suggestions how to handle these cross-tree changes > (patch #2 belongs to the linux-gpio tree, patches #1, 3 and #4 should > go through the net-next tree. I will re-send patch #5 separately as > this should go through Kevin's linux-amlogic tree). Hi Martin Patches 1 and 4 don't seem to have and dependencies. So i would suggest splitting them out and submitting them to netdev for merging independent of the rest. Linus can probably create a stable branch with the GPIO changes, which David can pull into net-next, and then apply the stmmac changes on top. Andrew