Re: [PATCH 1/4] usb: phy: rename nop_usb_xceiv => usb_phy_gen_xceiv

From: Tony Lindgren
Date: Tue Jul 30 2013 - 03:56:59 EST


* Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [130730 00:41]:
> On 07/30/2013 09:08 AM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > Looking at this patch there's a pretty high probability of introducing
> > pointless merge conflicts.
> >
> > How about do the platform data related changes as a separate follow-up
> > series? You can typically do this by keeping the old features around,
> > then doing a separate series to rename or remove the users later on.
> > This will remove the dependency between platform data and the driver
> > changes.
>
> I can do this. This will work of for the driver name but not for the
> name the platform_data struct. To address this part you could create a
> separate branch on top of -rc3 or so which contains only this change(s)
> and Felipe and you merge this branch so there won't be any conflicts.

A separate minimal branch against -rc3 sounds good to me.

Regards,

Tony
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