linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] [ARM] msm_serial: serial driver for MSM7K onboard serial peripheral.

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Message-ID: <a55d774e0906181229t5d71622dh5e7403218b88a4b6@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:29:44 -0700
From:	Brian Swetland <swetland@...gle.com>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, pavel@....cz,
	Robert Love <rlove@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] [ARM] msm_serial: serial driver for MSM7K onboard 
	serial peripheral.

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 2:20 AM, Alan Cox<alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:31:13 -0700
> Brian Swetland <swetland@...gle.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Robert Love <rlove@...gle.com>
>>
>> Provides support for the "lowspeed" UARTs on the MSM7k and QSD8k
>> family of SoCs from Qualcomm.  Serial console support included.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rlove@...gle.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Brian Swetland <swetland@...gle.com>
>> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
>
> If you fold other peoples patches into something please preserve the
> authorship data and preferably keep the two patches separated as it
> otherwise causes merge problems if stuff (eg the serial patches) goes via
> two trees at once.

Ah, sorry about that -- I can resend the revised patch that your patch
applies against (but without your changes merged in).  Previously, for
the ARM stuff I got the impression that a single patch folding small
changes in was preferred, but I may have misunderstood the workflow.

> At the moment the ttydev tree has
>        -> your original -> my (intel's I guess) fixes ->
>
> and if the updated one also went in via the arm tree git can't always
> figure out what is going on.
>
> If its only going by one path and you know that then just adding an
> additional note on the authorship of updates is fine but this being
> serial/tty and ARM is likely to hit both trees.
>
> Alan
>
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