linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V8 1/2] regulator: Add document for MT6323 regulator

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Date:	Mon, 11 Jul 2016 22:31:45 +0200
From:	John Crispin <john@...ozen.org>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc:	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V8 1/2] regulator: Add document for MT6323 regulator



On 11/07/2016 21:22, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 08:55:24PM +0200, John Crispin wrote:
>> On 11/07/2016 20:08, Mark Brown wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 02:29:38PM +0200, John Crispin wrote:
> 
>>>> This is a resend as V7 was dropped due to a merge order conflict.
> 
>>> What were the dependencies and why will simply resending this resolve
>>> them?
> 
>> the dependency was the mt6323 support inside the mt6397 MFD device [1]
>> and the headers that it included. this has been merged so the regulator
>> driver is good to go for 4.8
> 
> No, that's not resolving the dependencies - if I apply these patches
> without the dependencies in the regulator tree that will still break the
> build for my tree until after the merge window.  It'll also break Linus'
> tree if (as is normal) I send my pull requests early on.  I'd need to
> merge the MFD commits into my tree which would need coordination with
> Lee, he'd need to make a tag for me to pull in.
> 

hi,

maybe i am missing something here, but i can see the dependencies inside
the for-next branch of
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/regulator.git. is
this not the tree i should base patches on for v4.8 ?

	John