[PATCH 0/2] i2c: meson: add gxbb compatible string

Rob Herring robh at kernel.org
Fri Sep 23 16:04:50 PDT 2016


On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 5:13 PM, Wolfram Sang <wsa at the-dreams.de> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 10:01:13AM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Wolfram Sang <wsa at the-dreams.de> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 11:49:15AM +0200, Jerome Brunet wrote:
>> >> This patchset adds a specific compatible string in the Meson I2C driver
>> >> for the Amlogic Meson gxbb SoC.
>> >>
>> >> Other patch series (pinctrl and device tree) are being sent to complete
>> >> the i2c support on meson gxbb
>> >>
>> >> Neil Armstrong (2):
>> >>   i2c: meson: add gxbb compatible string
>> >>   dt-bindings: i2c-meson: add gxbb compatible string
>> >
>> > Squashed both patches and applied to for-next, thanks!
>>
>> Please don't squash. We ask people to split DT bindings for a reason
>> being reviews and bindings may not go thru subsystem maintainers in
>> the future. It also makes it harder to find things in the archives or
>> patchwork (as does maintainer fixups of subject lines).
>
> I intentionally don't ask people to send me the patches squashed. So,
> you will have them seperate in patchwork et al. I only squash them just
> before commiting to my tree. That's because I found that when digging
> through git history, it is much more convenient to have all the
> information in one commit.

If git history was the only thing that mattered, then that would be
fine. But it is not. Maintainers should apply what's on the list.
Period. You wouldn't fixup pull requests to make the commit history
more to your liking, would you?

Rob



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