On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 03:15:39PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote: > > > I prefer not to merge patches that cannot be tested. Without > > the DT bits in patch 6 the other five patches are useless. So > > I think patch 6 should be applied together with the other five > > which add the driver. > > That's crazy talk. If all subsystem maintainers abide by this rule > there would be chaos. We'd either need to send pull-requests to each > other for every set which crossed a subsystems boundary, or 1000's of > merge conflicts would ensue at merge time. > > The (sensible) rule we normally stick to is; as long as there isn't > a _build_ dependency, then the patches should filter though their > respective trees; _functional_ dependencies have nothing to do with > us as maintainers. Another chaos preventing rule we abide by is; thou > shalt not apply patches belonging to other maintainer's subsystems > without the appropriate Ack-by and a subsequent "you may take this > though your tree" and/or "please send me an immutable pull-request". So you want the series to be merged in two parts via two different trees where neither can be tested? That sounds crazy to me. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
