linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] device connection: Add support for device graphs

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Message-ID: <20190215124715.GA10182@kuha.fi.intel.com>
Date:   Fri, 15 Feb 2019 14:47:15 +0200
From:   Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
        Chen Yu <chenyu56@...wei.com>, Jun Li <jun.li@....com>,
        Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
        linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] device connection: Add support for device graphs

Hi Greg,

On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 11:10:44AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 10:45:48AM +0300, Heikki Krogerus wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > This is the third version of my proposal to add device graph parsing
> > to the device connection API. There was only one problem reported in
> > v2 by Jun - kernel-doc entry was missing for the new fwnode member in
> > struct usb_role_switch_desc - and it's now fixed.
> > 
> > The second version of the series:
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/1/30/622
> > 
> > The commit message from v1:
> > 
> > This series adds support for OF and ACPI device graph parsing to the
> > device connection API.
> > 
> > Handling the graph is straightforward, but because I'm adding that
> > fwnode member to struct device_connection, I had to make sure all the
> > existing users consider it.
> > 
> > The plan is to only support matching with fwnode in the future, so no
> > more device name matching. The software fwnodes that we now have in
> > kernel should make that possible, once we add support for references
> > to them.
> > 
> > The original RFC:
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/10/24/619
> 
> All now merged, thanks.

It looks like you have not followed the order of the patches in this
series.

You applied at least the patch 4/9 ("device connection: Add fwnode
member to struct device_connection") as the last patch to your
usb-next branch. The rest of the series, patches starting from 5/9,
depend on that patch.

thanks,

-- 
heikki