[PATCH v4 0/6] Add support for the Axis ARTPEC-8 SoC

[Ravi Patel]

Hi Krzysztof,

The dt-bindings patch was merged earlier in v3 series (https://lore.kernel.org/linux-samsung-soc/175664688891.195158.13270877080433356384.b4-ty@linaro.org/ on 31st August)
into respective maintainer repo. 
Then I have been asked to drop the applied v3 patches and send rebased v4 series (https://lore.kernel.org/linux-samsung-soc/15508cb4-843c-42d1-8854-5eabd79ca0df@kernel.org/)

Since the 4 patches from v3 series has been already merged, I have not the mentioned dependency while sending remaining v4 patches considering
It is going to same maintainer repo and it will be applied in sequence.

For future patches (like artpec-9), I will mention the dependency even it is merged in same repo.

Thanks,
Ravi

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk at kernel.org>
> Sent: 02 October 2025 12:10
> To: Ravi Patel <ravi.patel at samsung.com>
> Cc: jesper.nilsson at axis.com; mturquette at baylibre.com; sboyd at kernel.org; robh at kernel.org; krzk+dt at kernel.org;
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/6] Add support for the Axis ARTPEC-8 SoC
> 
> On Mon, 1 Sept 2025 at 14:42, Ravi Patel <ravi.patel at samsung.com> wrote:
> >
> > Add basic support for the Axis ARTPEC-8 SoC which contains
> > quad-core Cortex-A53 CPU and other several IPs. This SoC is an
> > Axis-designed chipset used in surveillance camera products such as
> > the AXIS Q1656-LE and AXIS Q3538-LVE.
> >
> > This ARTPEC-8 SoC has a variety of Samsung-specific IP blocks and
> > Axis-specific IP blocks and SoC is manufactured by Samsung Foundry.
> >
> > List of Samsung-provided IPs:
> > - UART
> > - Ethernet (Vendor: Synopsys)
> > - SDIO
> > - SPI
> > - HSI2C
> > - I2S
> > - CMU (Clock Management Unit)
> > - Pinctrl (GPIO)
> > - PCIe (Vendor: Synopsys)
> > - USB (Vendor: Synopsys)
> >
> > List of Axis-provided IPs:
> > - VIP (Image Sensor Processing IP)
> > - VPP (Video Post Processing)
> > - GPU
> > - CDC (Video Encoder)
> >
> > This patch series includes below changes:
> > - CMU (Clock Management Unit) driver and its bindings
> > - GPIO pinctrl configuration and its bindings
> > - Basic Device Tree for ARTPEC-8 SoC and boards
> >
> 
> Pretty useless cover letter since it doesn't say the damn most
> important thing : dependency!
> 
> So this went unnoticed and now mainline (Linus tree) is affected. See
> Linus rant on soc pull request
> 
> I'm very disappointed, actually mostly on me that I picked this up.
> Your future patches, need to improve quality and probably you need to
> go back to how Git works and how maintainer trees are organized. Read
> carefully, really carefully please maintainer profile .
> 
> I'll be putting artpec 9 on hold, till you confirm what was wrong here
> and how are you going to fix it in the future.