(subset) [PATCH v13 0/7] spacemit: introduce P1 PMIC support

Yixun Lan dlan at gentoo.org
Tue Sep 16 06:05:53 PDT 2025


Hi Mark, Jones,

On 13:27 Tue 16 Sep     , Lee Jones wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Sep 2025, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 09:42:29AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> > > On Thu, 11 Sep 2025, Mark Brown wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 11:36:41AM -0500, Alex Elder wrote:
> > 
> > > > > How should these two patches be merged?  Mark has reviewed the
> > > > > regulator patch 3 and Alexandre has acked the RTC patch 4.
> > 
> > > > We'd both have been expecting them to go via MFD.
> > 
> > > Why?  I don't see any dependencies between them (usually a shared MFD
> > > header-file).  If there are no deps, it should be taken through its own
> > > repo, no?
> > 
> > I used to just apply things but at some point Linus complained about
> > cases where the MFD ended up not getting merged (missing the merge
> > window or whatever) so I've been treating them like they had an actual
> > dependency.
> 
> Not sure I've seen any of that from Linus, but I don't doubt you.  The
> MFD part has been merged now, so it's save to go ahead and apply the
> Regulator part.
> 

Forgive me to chim in..

To be honest, I don't really mind which tree the patch to go through.. 

But since the patch 3 has no build time dependency on previous two,
so it should be fair to take via pmu/regulator tree, I've done a check
locally which imply this..

What do you think, Mark?

-- 
Yixun Lan (dlan)



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