[PATCH v2 0/6] ARM: shmobile: Move gpio ranges from C code to DT

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Linus,

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 2:55 AM, Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au> wrote:
>> Where possible I prefer not to apply non-DTS/DTSI patches on top of
>> DTS/DTSI patches, I believe this is in keeping with how the ARM SoC
>> maintainers like things handled.  With this in mind I have done the following:
>>
>> 1. Queued up the DTSI patches (patches 1 - 3) for v4.3 in my dt branch.
>>    I intend for this to turn up in next soon.
>> 2. Queued up for pinctrl patches (patches 4 - 6) for v4.4 in a pinctrl patch.
>>    I intend for these to be present in the renesas devel branch but
>>    not in next until after the release of v4.3-rc1. I would also be
>>    happy to drop them and let Linus Walleij take these patches for v4.4,
>>    assuming patches 1 - 3 are accepted for v4.3.
>
> OK.
>
> Will the world explode if I try to queue the pinctrl patches 4-6 in my
> tree now for v4.3? Then I prefer to defer to v4.4. Else I can merge
> it in parallel?

There won't be a mapping between gpio and pins in any branch having the
pinctrl changes but not the dtsi changes.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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