[PATCH v8 0/9] initial suport for Alphascale ASM9260

Jason Cooper jason at lakedaemon.net
Sun Nov 2 10:31:30 PST 2014


On Sun, Nov 02, 2014 at 07:51:42AM +0100, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> Am 02.11.2014 um 03:11 schrieb Jason Cooper:
> > On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 03:39:02PM +0100, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> >> Will it be better to split this patch set?
> >>
> >> For example:
> >> part 1
> >>>   ARM: add mach-asm9260
> >>>   ARM: add lolevel debug support for asm9260
> >> part2
> >>>   ARM: irqchip: mxs: prepare driver for HW with different offsets
> >>>   ARM: irqchip: mxs: add Alpascale ASM9260 support
> >> and all other patches separately.
> >>
> >> this will reduce review time for you and give some hope for me :D
> > 
> > I honestly prefer to keep the series together.  The subject lines make

To be clear, I meant the emails being in the same thread.

> > it clear which parts I need to worry about merging.  The big thing is
> > if there are compile-time dependencies between the different subsystems.
> > It doesn't look like there are, but if so, just bring it to our
> > attention.
> 
> Ok, i'll resend updated version against latest arm-soc/for-next.git, or
> should i take other branch?

In general it's best to base against one of Linus' tags (eg v3.18-rc1)
and then rebase against something different only if asked.  That'll be
per subsystem, though.

Please don't forget to Cc the mach-mxs/ maintainers on the irqchip
changes.

thx,

Jason.



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