linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 24/24] platform/chrome: cros_ec: Use PM subsystem to manage wakeirq

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Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2024 15:45:06 -0700
From: Mark Hasemeyer <markhas@...omium.org>
To: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@...omium.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>, 
	AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@...labora.com>, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, 
	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...el.com>, 
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>, Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@...aro.org>, 
	Raul Rangel <rrangel@...omium.org>, Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@...nel.org>, 
	Benson Leung <bleung@...omium.org>, Bhanu Prakash Maiya <bhanumaiya@...omium.org>, 
	Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst@...omium.org>, Guenter Roeck <groeck@...omium.org>, 
	Prashant Malani <pmalani@...omium.org>, Rob Barnes <robbarnes@...gle.com>, 
	chrome-platform@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 24/24] platform/chrome: cros_ec: Use PM subsystem to
 manage wakeirq

On Wed, Jan 3, 2024 at 3:25 PM Mark Hasemeyer <markhas@...omium.org> wrote:
>
> > The DTS patch would go through the platform maintainer tree and be
> > pulled into the soc tree and sent up to mainline from there. The
> > platform/chrome patch would go through chrome platform tree and then to
> > mainline. The bisection hole will be real.
>
> I thought it would all get merged in the next merge window. How are
> bifurcations like this normally dealt with? Does one wait for the
> first series of patches to land in mainline before submitting
> dependent patches? That could take two merge windows.

The DTS dependency problem must be an exception? How are other
dependency problems resolved? For example, this patch relies on
changes to 'platform_get_irq()' which is in drivers/base/platform.c,
which I imagine is in a different subsystem and gets merged into a
different maintainer's tree.