On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 9:34 PM, Olof Johansson <olof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > - We've started telling people to avoid cross-tree shared branches if all > they're doing is picking up one or two DT-used constants from a > shared include file, and instead to use the numeric values on first > submission. Follow-up moving over to symbolic names are sent in right > after -rc1, i.e. here. It's only a few minor patches of this type. OK it seems like a reasonable process. It's not like I can think about anything better. I was more opting for doing things this way: - Create bindings and <dt-bindings/foo/bar.h> merge it into the foo subsystem. - Merge driver into drivers/foo/bar.c that use <dt-bindings/foo/bar.h> - Submit DTS patch to ARM SoC (or whetever) using only numerical values. - After the merge window, follow up with a patch replacing the numerical constants with #defines from <dt-bindings/foo/bar.h> An alternative would obviously be to wait for the next merge window after merging the driver patch but I guess people are too impatient to do that (including me). We discussed cross-tree dependencies a bit on ksummit-discuss but this solution was not mentioned back then. Yours, Linus Walleij
