Orion Pull request

[Mark Brown]

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 07:07:44AM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 July 2012, Andrew Lunn wrote:

> > If i make the branches based on the -rc7 release, how do i test them?
> > The patches have dependencies on the I2C patch now accepted by the I2C
> > maintainer and the SPI patches accepted by the SPI maintainer.  These
> > patches implement the DT support in the drivers. Without those
> > patches, all i2c devices are missing, and worst still, the root FS is
> > missing on my Kirkwood QNAP device i test with.

> You can merge the i2c and spi branches that went upstream into your
> own branch before applying your own patches. This way, they become
> "dependencies" and should get merged before yours are sent (in this
> case they already are)

But only if they're stable branches that won't get rebased - always
check with the subsystem maintainers about this.