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

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 2:30 AM, Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 02:45:55PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> 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.

Sounds fine to me.

And in the unlikely event we discover regressions in v4.3-rc1 due to having
the dtsi changes without the pinctrl changes, we can still fast-track them
into v4.3-rc2.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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