From: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@xxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2019 16:20:54 +0200 > RTC platform device will be setup by new IOC3 MFD driver, therefore > remove it from IP27 platform code. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@xxxxxxx> You cannot break the driver like this. Your patch series must be fully bisectable, which means that after this patch is applied things still must continue working properly.