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Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2017 12:44:45 +0100
From: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>
To: Leonard Crestez <leonard.crestez@....com>,
Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>,
Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@...il.com>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
Lothar Waßmann <LW@...O-electronics.de>,
Dong Aisheng <aisheng.dong@....com>,
Bai Ping <ping.bai@....com>, Anson Huang <Anson.Huang@....com>,
Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@....com>,
Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@....com>,
linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] thermal: imx: Add support for reading OCOTP
through nvmem
On 08/08/17 12:38, Leonard Crestez wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-08-08 at 12:00 +0100, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:
>> On 08/08/17 08:21, Zhang Rui wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2017-07-25 at 16:08 +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 05:11:08PM +0300, Leonard Crestez wrote:
>
>>>>> On newer imx SOCs accessing OCOTP directly is wrong because the
>>>>> ocotp clock
>>>>> needs to be enabled first. Add support for reading those same
>>>>> values through
>>>>> the nvmem API instead.
>>>>>
>>>>> The older path is preserved for compatibility with older dts and
>>>>> because it
>>>>> works correctly on imx6qdl chips.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Leonard Crestez <leonard.crestez@....com>
>>>> Acked-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>
>
>>> I'm okay with the thermal change.
>>> We still need ACK for the nvmem changes in this patch series.
>
>> NVMEM changes are already sent to Greg K H with other patches
>> (https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/26/164), should appear in next.
>
> These patches have a compile-time dependency on each other. Wouldn't it
> make more sense for the whole series to go through a single maintainer
> tree, atomically? Most of the changes are in driver/thermal.
I was expecting that the nvmem change go in as fix in a rc release so
that you could apply the other patches after that.
Let me ping Greg about this!!
>
> I'm really very confused about how series that touch multiple areas are
> applied. It seems to be a mostly ad-hoc process.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Leonard
>
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