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

[Simon Horman]

On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 12:34:33PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 9:46 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven
> <geert at linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Sounds like a plan.
> 
> Hit me on the head about this once v4.3-rc1 is out!

Thanks, I will drop the patches from my tree.