[PATCH 1/3] clk: meson: meson8b: add compatibles for Meson8 and Meson8m2

Jerome Brunet jbrunet at baylibre.com
Mon Jun 5 01:23:28 PDT 2017


On Mon, 2017-06-05 at 00:27 +0200, Martin Blumenstingl wrote:
> > I think you should split the binding documentation and clk changes into
> > separate
> > patches.
> 
> OK, from what I know is that for "trivial" changes the driver and
> dt-binding changes can go through one patch.
> this patch started as a four-line patch which added two lines of
> documentation and two lines of driver code.

I'm not aware of such tolerance but if you've have seen that the DT maintainers
are OK with it, feel free to point me to it.

Last time I heard about it, DT guys were using filter-branch on the kernel tree
to create a separate tree, so I was thinking that this "documentation as a
separate patch" was a hard rule ... but I may be wrong

> however, with all the Kconfig/comment/etc updates I think that you are
> right and it's worth splitting this into two patches (one for the
> clock driver and one for the dt-binding changes)




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