linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] MFD/ASoC: Add support for Intel Bay Trail boards with WM5102 codec

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Message-ID: <20210204150904.GD4288@sirena.org.uk>
Date:   Thu, 4 Feb 2021 15:09:04 +0000
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
Cc:     Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
        Cezary Rojewski <cezary.rojewski@...el.com>,
        Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@...ux.intel.com>,
        Liam Girdwood <liam.r.girdwood@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jie Yang <yang.jie@...ux.intel.com>,
        patches@...nsource.cirrus.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
        Charles Keepax <ckeepax@...nsource.cirrus.com>,
        alsa-devel@...a-project.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] MFD/ASoC: Add support for Intel Bay Trail boards
 with WM5102 codec

On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 01:46:06PM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Feb 2021, Mark Brown wrote:

> > The usual pattern here is that the MFD patches get merged and then I
> > pull a shared branch in for any dependencies - at this point the series
> > is now on the backlog of serieses where I'm waiting for the MFD to sort
> > itself out before I really look at it again.

> I tend to push patches awaiting Acks to the back of the queue.

> Stalemate.

I'm only going to ack things if I expect to see them applied via another
tree, that's generally what an ack means from a maintainer.  Especially
with ASoC where we keep on having subsystem wide changes quite often I'm
not likely to do that for things like new drivers unless it's very clear
what the timelines are.

It would be enormously helpful to get the bits of the core MFDs that
create dependencies committed while the rest of the series is still in
process, as well as allowing things to be applied it also helps with
knowing if the dependencies are stable.

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