On Mon, 08 Apr 2019 10:05:28 -0700 (PDT) David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. I see your point and the ethernet driver itself will work properly, but of course IP27 will be working again after applying the whole series. One way I can see to solve this to also add the addition of the serial driver into it. Then we are on par with the current driver. Does this solve your concern ? Thomas. -- SUSE Linux GmbH GF: Felix Imendörffer, Mary Higgins, Sri Rasiah HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)
