On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 09:06:19AM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: > On 18/03/2024 07:38, Inochi Amaoto wrote: > > Add dma multiplexer support for the Sophgo CV1800/SG2000 SoCs. > > > > The patch include the following patch: > > http://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/PH7PR20MB4962F822A64CB127911978AABB4E2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > > What does it mean? Did you include here some other commit, so when it > get applied we end up with two same commits? No, that's not how to > handle dependencies. Explain instead the dependency or combine patchsets. > Because the binding patch (patch 1) included is a must to describe syscon binding. And the driver code needs soc definition (patch 3). If these patch are maintained separately, patch 3 should go to series of syscon, which make dependency of these two patch setis too complex. So I tend to evolve them together. > Best regards, > Krzysztof >