Re: [PATCH 1/5] ARM: defconfigs: add MTD_SPI_NOR (new dependency for M25P80)

From: Brian Norris
Date: Tue May 06 2014 - 13:05:39 EST


On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 11:53:22AM -0700, Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Jason Cooper <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 03:51:11PM -0700, Olof Johansson wrote:
> >> Cases like these are easiest that we just take the patch directly in
> >> an early-merge branch (i.e. cleanup or fixes-non-critical, or a
> >> generic depends branch), and if there's conflicts as topics are merged
> >> in from subplatforms we can deal with it then.
> >
> > Are you referring to basing on -rc1, or the series being split up to
> > the individual sub-arch maintainers?
> >
> > *slightly* confused,
>
> I'm referring to us taking the patch into something like our cleanup
> branch, and any branches that come in from you or other subplatforms
> will be merged on top, so we can resolve conflicts there and then.
> We'll merge in the cleanup branch into other next/* branches as needed
> to resolve the conflicts in our tree instead of percolating them all
> the way up.

In case you didn't notice, I already had split up the patch series a
little more for v2 (based on -rc1 still), and most of it seems to be
going through the sub-arch trees, I think. There is one patch targeted
directly at arm-soc (that's you, Olof?).

Let me know if v2 has any problems.

Thanks,
Brian
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