linux-next: manual merge of the arm-soc tree with the usb tree

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior bigeasy at linutronix.de
Tue Aug 27 11:25:23 EDT 2013


On 08/27/2013 05:01 PM, Kevin Hilman wrote:
>>> What do we do now?
>>
>> Cannot you just merge the stable arm-soc/dt branch into your branch
>> before applying your patches?
> 
> Unfortunately, the next/dt branch of arm-soc is not necessarily stable
> so should *not* be merged.  In fact none of the arm-soc branches should
> be considered stable.
> 
> As was already mentioned, this should be split up into driver changes
> and DTS changes through arm-soc.  They'll both merge for v3.12.

But splitting will break the driver until .dts & code is in sync again.

> BTW, how did this patch get merged without a signoff/ack from the OMAP
> DT maintainer in the first place?  Hmm, looks like Benoit was not copied
> nor was linux-omap or linux-arm-kernel copied in the original mails.

Hmm. I had Benoit's okay [0] to do the change "as long as Felipe is
fine with it". I indeed forgot to Cc Benoit on the dts changes.
For the phy-rename Felipe pinged you and we did the topic-branch, here
I forgot.

> 
> Kevin

[0] http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg88423.html

Sebastian



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