linux-kernel - Re: (subset) [PATCH v13 0/7] spacemit: introduce P1 PMIC support

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Message-ID: <c8bcfff9-9d2a-426d-9df8-100efd2af64f@sirena.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 12:50:56 +0100
From: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To: Lee Jones <lee@...nel.org>
Cc: Alex Elder <elder@...cstar.com>, lgirdwood@...il.com,
	alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com, robh@...nel.org, krzk+dt@...nel.org,
	conor+dt@...nel.org, mat.jonczyk@...pl, dlan@...too.org,
	paul.walmsley@...ive.com, palmer@...belt.com, aou@...s.berkeley.edu,
	alex@...ti.fr, linux.amoon@...il.com, troymitchell988@...il.com,
	guodong@...cstar.com, linux-rtc@...r.kernel.org,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
	spacemit@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: (subset) [PATCH v13 0/7] spacemit: introduce P1 PMIC support

On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 09:42:29AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Sep 2025, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 11:36:41AM -0500, Alex Elder wrote:

> > > How should these two patches be merged?  Mark has reviewed the
> > > regulator patch 3 and Alexandre has acked the RTC patch 4.

> > We'd both have been expecting them to go via MFD.

> Why?  I don't see any dependencies between them (usually a shared MFD
> header-file).  If there are no deps, it should be taken through its own
> repo, no?

I used to just apply things but at some point Linus complained about
cases where the MFD ended up not getting merged (missing the merge
window or whatever) so I've been treating them like they had an actual
dependency.

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