netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 00/18] Add Gigabit Ethernet driver support

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Date:   Mon, 26 Jul 2021 15:49:48 +0200
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>
To:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:     Biju Das <biju.das.jz@...renesas.com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>,
        Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@...russia.ru>,
        Adam Ford <aford173@...il.com>,
        Yuusuke Ashizuka <ashiduka@...itsu.com>,
        Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@...esas.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org" 
        <linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Chris Paterson <Chris.Paterson2@...esas.com>,
        Biju Das <biju.das@...renesas.com>,
        Prabhakar Mahadev Lad <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@...renesas.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 00/18] Add Gigabit Ethernet driver support

On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 12:56 PM Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert@...ux-m68k.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 8:28 AM Biju Das <biju.das.jz@...renesas.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Are these changes inseparable? If so, you need to be up front on this, and
> > > you need an agreement with the subsystem maintainers how the patches are
> > > going to be merged? Through which tree. And you need Acked-by from the
> > > other tree maintainers.
> > >
> > > Ideally you submit multiple patchsets. This assumes all sets will compile
> > > independently.
> >
> > Agreed. Will split this patch series in 3 patchsets
> >
> > 1) single binding patch
> >
> > 2) Clock patchset
> >
> > 3) ravb driver patchset.
>
> 4) dts part.
>
> Part 2 should pass through renesas-clk.
> Part 4 should pass through renesas-devel.

Sounds good. To clarify: the changes should not just compile, but
each branch should be usable independently with no loss of
functionality. Using the feature depends on having all branches
merged, but they should not introduced regressions when applied
into some other tree.

I hope this was already obvious to everyone involved.

       Arnd