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- To: Olof Johansson <olof@xxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: [linux-oxnas] Re: [PATCH 0/3] ARM: dts: oxnas: Update support for OX820 and use dt-bindings
- From: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 15:30:29 +0100
- Cc: "arm@xxxxxxxxxx" <arm@xxxxxxxxxx>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>, "linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-oxnas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Hi Olof,
On 10/31/2016 03:24 PM, Olof Johansson wrote:
> Hi,
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm ready to send a pull request for arm-soc-dt, but I need to understand how this dependency
>> should be worked out.
>>
>> Should this be sent as a late pull request ?
>
>
> The need for dt-include changes is one of my pet peeves these days,
> since they require coordination between trees.
>
> There's two ways to solve this:
>
> 1) Make sure that the branches you sent to other maintainers are
> stable, that they merge them as-is and don't rebase. This is a
> three-way handshake (we want to be cc:d on it). Then base your branch
> on top of those two branches.
It may be possible, at least from the clock tree.
Anyway, it's good to know, if I had a single tree to synchronize with,
I'll eventually select this option...
>
> or:
>
> 2) Avoid using the includes now, using numerical constants instead.
> Then, after next merge window, follow up with a patch that converts to
> symbols.
I will select this option for now, my ultimate goal is to have something booting
for 4.10, cleanup can really wait 4.11...
>
> -Olof
>
Thanks,
Neil