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

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Sun May 20 00:43:54 EDT 2012


On Sun, 13 May 2012 15:51:35 +0100, Mark Brown <broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 01:17:32AM +0800, Thomas Abraham wrote:
> > On 9 May 2012 22:28, Mark Brown <broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> wrote:
> 
> > > 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.
> 
> I'd not say the diff is *that* big (and most of what's there is simple
> and repetitive), and bisection is a very useful tool.  I know I
> frequently find it enormously painful trying to figure out breakage when
> large chunks of the history don't work usefully.

I agree.  Squash them!

g.


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Grant Likely, B.Sc, P.Eng.
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