linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] spi: bcm2835: add a sentinel at the end of the lookup array

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Message-ID: <CAMRc=McY2d0tHE18qn5WAPYwTwFn+TVZt48WA-t5tMwzkPsjvg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 12 Oct 2023 10:40:53 +0200
From:   Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
To:     Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc:     Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@...adcom.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Ray Jui <rjui@...adcom.com>,
        Scott Branden <sbranden@...adcom.com>,
        Broadcom internal kernel review list 
        <bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com>, linux-spi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-rpi-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>,
        Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] spi: bcm2835: add a sentinel at the end of the lookup array

On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 1:52 PM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 1:45 PM Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 09:36:19AM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 8:33 PM Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org> wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 04 Oct 2023 20:39:06 +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> >
> > > > [1/1] spi: bcm2835: add a sentinel at the end of the lookup array
> > > >       commit: 9aaa25df9b02bfe5579cbc9b4cc1177c662ec33f
> >
> > > Can you provide me with an immutable branch containing commit
> > > 21f252cd29f08892d48739fd7513ad79c1cff96a (the one this one fixes)?
> >
> > > We are very close to removing gpiochip_find() from the GPIOLIB and
> > > with this pulled we could remove it for v6.7.
> >
> > Ugh, *please* say this sort of thing when sending patches rather than
> > waiting until after they've been applied.  The default is just to add
> > patches to the normal development branches which means they have the
> > whole history for the release cycle after them and may well have other
> > things applied on top of them before you get round to asking for them to
> > be applied on a different branch as is the case here.
>
> I'm sorry. I didn't expect the removal process to go as fast as there
> were quite a few users but it turned out to be almost ready now.
>
> We can wait until rc7 when your for-next branch will be more or less
> immutable and then you can tag
> 21f252cd29f08892d48739fd7513ad79c1cff96a alone (it only has a few
> commits between it and v6.6-rc1) if that works for you?
>
> Bart

Alternatively - if you send your SPI PR to Linus early in the merge
window, I will send the patch removing gpiochip_find() later on top of
it?

Bart