[PATCH v2 07/10] pinctrl: ambarella: add Ambarella pin controller

[Rob Herring]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2026 at 2:42 PM Linus Walleij <linusw at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2026 at 6:02 AM Long Zhao <longzhao at ambarella.com> wrote:
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> > Thanks for the review. I will rework this to reuse the PL061 driver with
> > per-variant register offsets, and evaluate modeling each GPIO bank as a
> > separate DT entity. The duplicated GPIO implementation will be removed.
>
> Thanks Long, I think it will be easier if you break out the pin control
> bindings and driver from the patch series and work on it separately,
> the same with the serial driver at least.
>
> I understand this can be hard to test on the hardware, I usually
> put a few patches "underneath" the b4 cover letter, and then the
> b4 send-email will only send the cover letter and the patches
> on top.

The problem with that advice is then 'base-commit' is useless.

Maybe b4 could learn an 'ignore the top N commits" or "only track the
first N commits".

Rob