linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/6] MIPS: SGI-IP27: remove setup of RTC platform device

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Message-Id: <20190408.100528.608078178525055072.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Mon, 08 Apr 2019 10:05:28 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     tbogendoerfer@...e.de
Cc:     ralf@...ux-mips.org, paul.burton@...s.com, jhogan@...nel.org,
        dmitry.torokhov@...il.com, lee.jones@...aro.org,
        a.zummo@...ertech.it, alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, jslaby@...e.com,
        linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-input@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-rtc@...r.kernel.org, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] MIPS: SGI-IP27: remove setup of RTC platform device

From: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@...e.de>
Date: Mon,  8 Apr 2019 16:20:54 +0200

> RTC platform device will be setup by new IOC3 MFD driver, therefore
> remove it from IP27 platform code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@...e.de>

You cannot break the driver like this.

Your patch series must be fully bisectable, which means that after
this patch is applied things still must continue working properly.