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

Simon Horman horms at verge.net.au
Thu Aug 13 17:30:23 PDT 2015


On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 02:45:55PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> 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.

It sounds to me that Linus should take his option 2; defer to v4.4.
In which case I should drop the changes from my tree (they are not in next
anyway). Please let me know if thats the way we will move this forwards.




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