[GIT PULL] ARM: imx: SoC updates for 3.19

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Fri Nov 21 04:55:43 PST 2014


On Friday 21 November 2014 16:37:55 Shawn Guo wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> > The changes all look good, but could you please send them again based on
> > v3.18-rc1? I'm trying to avoid back-merges from upstream into the next
> > branches.
> 
> The imx/cleanup branch can simply be based on v3.18-rc1.  But I choose
> to base imx/soc on a latest -rc to resolve a conflict between commit
> 410ba8d4a0da (ARM: imx: clk-vf610: get input clocks from assigned
> clocks) and c72c553249bb (ARM: imx: clk-vf610: define PLL's clock
> tree).  The former one is currently sits on imx/soc branch, and the
> latter landed on -rc4 as a fix.  I think we can handle it in either
> way of the following two.
> 
> 1. Drop commit 410ba8d4a0da (ARM: imx: clk-vf610: get input clocks
> from assigned clocks) from imx/soc branch and send it as a fix for
> 3.18 right way.
> 
> 2. Keep 410ba8d4a0da on imx/soc and leave the merge conflict to Linus.
> 
> What's your preference?

I think the best approach in this case would be to rebase your series
on top of 410ba8d4a0da. next/soc already contains -rc3 but not
-rc4, so this would solve the backmerge problem nicely.

> >
> > Also, note that we've started splitting out defconfig changes into
> > a separate topic branch. Since you are rebasing anyway, please send
> > the defconfig change as a separate patch or pull request and also
> > update multi_v7_defconfig in the same way.
> 
> Okay, to keep it simple, I will squashed the defconfig updates into
> one patch and send it to you.

Ok, sounds good, thanks!

	Arnd



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