Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] gpio: mcp23s08: Bug fix of SPI device tree registration." failed to apply to 3.14-stable tree

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On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 08:32:14AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 10:16:36AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 11:16:50PM -0500, Michael Welling wrote:
> > >> Recently my patch was found to be a duplicated in the gpio
> > >> tree during a manual merge with linux-next.
> > >>
> > >> The patch was similar but not identical and it was smoothed out by Stephen
> > >> Rothwell.
> > >>
> > >> Though I did found a bit of redundant code in the Linux next version.
> > >>
> > >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/28/197
> > >>
> > >> I am willing to recreate the patch but I am wondering if I should
> > >> model it after my original patch or after the merged version in
> > >> linux-next.
> > >>
> > >> Suggestions?
> > >
> > > I'll defer to the gpio maintainer, he would know what's best to do here.
> > 
> > First fix the code that has landed upstream to look like you
> > want it, then submit a squashed combined version that looks
> > like you want it.
> 
> No, I don't like squashed patches, just send both of them backported
> properly.

I am a bit confused as to what happened in the merge of Linux next but
it has multiple redundancies in the code.

I will port a patch for 3.14-stable and then go fix the mess that was created
in linux-next.
 
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
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