Re: Patches for 2.6.39 merge window

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I pushed the merge of Ben's i2c-tegra as for-next-i2c.  I will put any
patches that depend on i2c support in that branch, and keep it rebased
on top of for-next.

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Colin Cross <ccross@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>
> To prevent the merge window from becoming a mess, patches are supposed
> to be in linux-next by rc6 of the previous release.
>
> Ben never responded to my question about merging i2c-tegra, so I'll
> merge it for now.
>
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Colin Cross wrote at Thursday, March 03, 2011 12:12 PM:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Mark Brown
>>> <broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 01:01:23PM -0800, Colin Cross wrote:
>>> >> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Mark Brown
>>> >
>>> >> > That's the standard way of handling this sort of thing - just send
>>> the
>>> >> > patch in a second pull request once the dependencies have all landed.
>>> >
>>> >> You could also put it in the tegra-arch branch and we could both re-
>>> merge it.
>>> >
>>> > I basically can't rebase my tree - it's merged into Takashi's tree and
>>> > there's lots of cross dependencies with my 2.6.38 fixes branch which
>>> > would cause bisect breakage.  If you want to cherry pick the relevant
>>> > WM8903 commit over into your tree that'd also be OK by me.
>>> >
>>>
>>> We should be fine with two pull requests.  I would still like to get
>>> all the changes into the for-next branch, without the wm8903 header
>>> change, but with the harmony file that depends on it.  I will point
>>> the for-linus branch at the last change that compiles without the
>>> wm8903 header change. linux-next should get the ASoC tree and the
>>> Tegra for-next tree, so everything should compile there.
>>
>> OK. I can easily split my patch into two:
>> a) Add basically everything, except for the gpio_base WM8903 platform
>>   data field. (for-linus)
>> b) Add the WM8903 platform data field. (for 2nd pull request)
>>
>> However, my board patches also rely on I2C platform data. There was
>> some discussion that Tegra's for-next would merge in Ben's I2C Tegra
>> branch and hence pick up the new platform header from that.
>>
>> Olof also mentioned he'd submit a patch through his branch to add all
>> the I2C bus registrations for all boards once the I2C branch was
>> merged.
>>
>> However, I haven't seen any traction on this. Is this still happening?
>> If not, I'll have to split my patch slightly differently, to also pull
>> out the I2C registrations into the second patch.
>>
>>> I'm going to be out of the office next week, so this is probably the
>>> last chance to get features in 2.6.39.
>>
>> I'm a little out-of-touch here, but this confuses me; 2.6.38 hasn't
>> been released yet, and hence the 2-week merge window isn't open yet.
>> And even then, I think we can submit small pull requests for stuff
>> like this throughout 2.6.39's rc releases. I'm not why right now is
>> the last chance to get stuff in.
>>
>> --
>> nvpublic
>>
>>
>
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