[PATCH v5 0/6] Mediatek thermal sensor driver support for MT8186 and MT8188
Russell King (Oracle)
linux at armlinux.org.uk
Fri May 24 10:19:50 PDT 2024
On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 01:04:38PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Fri, 24 May 2024, Julien Panis wrote:
>
> > [RFC] When PATCH 1/6 and 2/6 are squashed, checkpatch raises this WARNING:
> > "DT binding docs and includes should be a separate patch." That's why I
> > split them in this v5. The problem is that the driver can't be compiled
> > any more at PATCH 1/6. It needs PATCH 2/6 to be compiled. Should the
> > checkpatch warning be ignored here ? Should I finally squash PATCH 1/6
> > and PATCH 2/6 ?
>
> IMHO it might be preferable to preserve successful compilation across
> bisection than to appeal to checkpatch in this case.
Or, patch 1 adds the new definitions, subsequent patches convert the
users, and the last patch removes the old, now unused, definitions.
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