linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] mfd: syscon: Add syscon_regmap_lookup_by_phandle

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Date:   Wed, 18 Nov 2020 15:56:48 +0100
From:   Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>, Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
Cc:     Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@...labora.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Collabora Kernel ML <kernel@...labora.com>,
        Nicolas Boichat <drinkcat@...omium.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mfd: syscon: Add
 syscon_regmap_lookup_by_phandle_optional() function.



On 17/11/2020 17:40, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 5:07 PM Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, 17 Nov 2020, Matthias Brugger wrote:
>>> On 17/11/2020 13:37, Lee Jones wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 17 Nov 2020, Matthias Brugger wrote:
>>>
>>> If you want to go the route for me rebasing my tree on top of for-mfd-next
>>> then I'd like to have at least a stable tag, so that it will be easier to
>>> provide the pull-request later on. Would that be a compromise?
>>
>> I don't usually provide immutable branches/tags unless I'm sharing
>> topic branches for other maintainers to pick-up, in order to avoid
>> merge conflicts.
> 
> I think that's what Matthias is planning to do though. If he wants
> to send me a Mediatek specific branch for the soc tree, it needs to
> be based on a stable commit in the mtd tree to avoid duplicating
> the commit.
> 

Exactly, I'm the maintainer of MediaTek SoCs and I would need to pull this patch 
into my tree to be able to accept the series I mentioned [1]. Can you provide me 
a stable tag/branch, against just that patch or against your whole tree?

Regards,
Matthias

[1] 
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mediatek/20201030113622.201188-1-enric.balletbo@collabora.com/