[PATCH v4 1/2] ARM: clk-imx27: Add missing clock for mx2-camera
Sascha Hauer
s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Wed Oct 31 15:02:49 EDT 2012
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 04:53:03PM -0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em Wed, 31 Oct 2012 14:53:47 +0100 (CET)
> Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski at gmx.de> escreveu:
>
> > On Wed, 31 Oct 2012, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Sascha,
> > >
> > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Quoting yourself:
> > > >
> > > >> Forgot to comment: as patch 2 relies on this change, the better, IMHO, is
> > > >> to send both via the same tree. If you decide to do so, please get arm
> > > >> maintainer's ack, instead, and we can merge both via my tree.
> > > >
> > > > That's why Fabio resent these patches with my Ack. You are free to take
> > > > these.
> > >
> > > I have just realized that this patch (1/2) will not apply against
> > > media tree because it does not have commit 27b76486a3 (media:
> > > mx2_camera: remove cpu_is_xxx by using platform_device_id), which
> > > changes from mx2_camera.0 to imx27-camera.0.
> >
> > This is exactly the reason why I wasn't able to merge it. The problem was,
> > that this "media: mx2_camera: remove cpu_is_xxx by using
> > platform_device_id" patch non-trivially touched both arch/arm/ and
> > drivers/media/ directories. And being patch 27/34 I didn't feel like
> > asking the author to redo it again:-) This confirms, that it's better to
> > avoid such overlapping patches whenever possible.
> >
> > > So it seems to be better to merge this via arm tree to avoid such conflict.
>
> I agree with Fabio and Guennadi. There are so many changes happening at arm
> that merging those two patches there will likely be easier for everybody.
Ok, then I'll take them. I wasn't aware in arm-soc are sitting patches
for this driver already.
>
> Otherwise, I'll need to pull from some arm tree that never rebase, with
> the needed patches, and coordinate with you during the merge window,
> to be sure that patches will arrive there at the right order, from the
> right tree.
Hopefully these kind of cross dependencies become fewer over time. SoC
code is getting smaller and gets better abstracted from the drivers, so
chances are good.
Sascha
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