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

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Message-ID: <20250916122724.GB3585920@google.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 13:27:24 +0100
From: Lee Jones <lee@...nel.org>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@...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, 16 Sep 2025, Mark Brown wrote:

> 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.

Not sure I've seen any of that from Linus, but I don't doubt you.  The
MFD part has been merged now, so it's save to go ahead and apply the
Regulator part.

-- 
Lee Jones [李琼斯]