linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] usb: phy: rename nop_usb_xceiv => usb_phy_gen

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Date:	Tue, 30 Jul 2013 09:34:40 +0200
From:	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
To:	Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>
CC:	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, george.cherian@...com,
	Linux OMAP Mailing List <linux-omap@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] usb: phy: rename nop_usb_xceiv => usb_phy_gen_xceiv

On 07/30/2013 09:08 AM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> Looking at this patch there's a pretty high probability of introducing
> pointless merge conflicts.
> 
> How about do the platform data related changes as a separate follow-up
> series? You can typically do this by keeping the old features around,
> then doing a separate series to rename or remove the users later on.
> This will remove the dependency between platform data and the driver
> changes.

I can do this. This will work of for the driver name but not for the
name the platform_data struct. To address this part you could create a
separate branch on top of -rc3 or so which contains only this change(s)
and Felipe and you merge this branch so there won't be any conflicts.

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Tony

Sebastian
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