[PATCH 05/10] ARM: Samsung: Update the device names for spi clock lookup

Thomas Abraham thomas.abraham at linaro.org
Wed May 9 13:17:32 EDT 2012


On 9 May 2012 22:28, Mark Brown <broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 09:40:26PM +0800, Thomas Abraham wrote:
>> On 9 May 2012 16:52, Mark Brown <broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> wrote:
>
>> > This should've been squashed into the patch that updated to use driver
>> > data in order to avoid breaking bisection.
>
>> This patch updates clock devname in the platform code and the
>> modifications to use driver data is in the driver file. So these two
>> changes are kept separate to allow them to be applied to their
>> respective trees.
>
> This means that bisection will be broken - anything with only one tree
> won't be able to load the SPI driver successfully until it's merged
> with the other which isn't ideal.

Yes, we would have that problem until the two trees are merged. But I
still prefer not to squash the two patches which already contain huge
diff.

Thanks,
Thomas.



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