[GIT PULL] ARM: mvebu: pci/mbus fixes for v3.15
Olof Johansson
olof at lixom.net
Mon May 5 09:02:54 PDT 2014
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 4:49 AM, Jason Cooper <jason at lakedaemon.net> wrote:
> On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 10:40:33PM -0700, Olof Johansson wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 09:11:01AM -0400, Jason Cooper wrote:
>> > arm-soc guys,
>> >
>> > This rather large (for fixes) changeset resolves multiple problems with
>> > the mvebu PCIe driver. While it works fine for simple use cases, more
>> > complicated uses highlighted multiple problems with MSI handling and mbus
>> > window creation.
>> >
>> > These changes are Acked by the appropriate maintainers and have been in
>> > -next for about a week.
>>
>> Merged all three. We usually don't split up fixes in separate branches, so no
>> need to do so in the future.
>
> Noted. The mbus/pci/irqchip fix series was a complicated one, but I
> could've (should've) merged it into mvebu/fixes before sending the pull
> request. Will do so in the future.
>
> We've (mvebu, and other sub-archs afaict) been splitting /fixes and
> /dt-fixes for a while now. Which I think helps reinforce the
> independence of the two. Do you want those merged together as well,
> now?
Depends on volume. If it's a lot of fixes, separate is fine. If it's
just a few patches, then you're mostly causing extra work by
separating. This set seemed a bit on the small side for splitting out.
-Olof
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