linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] regmap: permit to set reg_update

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Date:   Mon, 18 Jul 2022 16:44:23 +0200
From:   Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@...il.com>
To:     Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, rafael@...nel.org,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regmap: permit to set reg_update_bits with bulk
 implementation

On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 03:42:06PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 03:48:52PM +0200, Christian Marangi wrote:
> 
> > thanks, assuming everything went smooth with the merge to linux-next and
> > no problems arise, can you provide a signed tag?
> 
> > This is needed for a net-next series that is currently in RFC state as
> > it does depends on this.
> 
> > (I had this problem before and it was said that in this kind of
> > situation I had to ask for a signed tag to merge the related patch in
> > net-next branch)
> 
> Oh, it would have been good to know about this when reviewing the patch
> rather than after the fact - since this hadn't been mentioned it's now
> applied on the main development branch with everything that's going into
> the next release rather than on a separate branch for easy merging
> elsewhere.  How urgent is this, given that the merge window is likely to
> open at the weekend so this'll get sent to Linus at that point - is the
> driver otherwise near merging?

Ohh sorry, I was too generic in the patch comments and didn't mention it
was an actual dependency.

It's not too urgent, (I assume) but it was said that it was preferrable
to have the changes done in 2 weeks window (the one in net-next about
the working driver). Will ask on net-next and give you news ASAP.

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