[GIT PULL 00/19] Second round of Renesas ARM-based SoC DT updates for v3.12

[Simon Horman]

On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 01:08:18AM -0700, Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 01:28:09PM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> > Hi Olof, Hi Arnd,
> > 
> > please consider this second round of Renesas ARM-based SoC DT updates for
> > v3.12.
> > 
> > This pull-request is based on renesas-soc-for-v3.12 which I have
> > previously sent a pull request-for. That is in turn based on
> > renesas-dt-for-v3.12. So there is a semi-circular dependency,
> > but it is not at all clear to me how this could be nicely avoided.
> 
> Best is to order it soc->dt instead of dt->soc, at least in this case. We tend
> to sort the branches soc->boards->dt, so that fits.
> 
> There's also the alternative to base as much as possible on top of the old dt
> branch, and only the bare minimum that depends on the soc branch in a separate
> one (that we could even add on top of soc if truly needed). Note that it might
> break down if you need yet another set of patches on top though.
> 
> For now I have added this to a next/dt2 branch to avoid the circular
> dependency.

Thanks for your advice. I'll try for dt->soc and/or dt->boards->soc
in future and see if that helps to avoid circular dependencies.