[PATCH v2 0/8] Pad retentions support for Exynos5433

Krzysztof Kozlowski krzk at kernel.org
Thu Jan 26 06:32:33 PST 2017


On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 11:50 AM, Linus Walleij
<linus.walleij at linaro.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 9:33 AM, Marek Szyprowski
> <m.szyprowski at samsung.com> wrote:
>
>> Patches in this patchset depends on each other. They are order in such a
>> way to make the changes bisectable.
>>
>> Patch #3 has runtime dependency on #1.
>> Patch #5 has runtime dependency on #3.
>> Patch #6 has runtime dependency on #4.
>>
>> This patchset also directly depends on the "Move pad retention control to
>> Exynos pin controller driver" patchset:
>> https://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg556074.html
>
> Do we *have* to merge it runtime-bisectably?
>
> I'm asking because we need a huge immutable branch
> (I guess in the MFD subsystem) to deal with that.

It helps a lot with finding introduced issues, so I think yes - we
want it runtime-bisectable. The board has already support in mainline
so it is not theoretical runtime...

Best regards,
Krzysztof



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