Re: Applied "regmap: Keep regmap_write_bits()" to the regmap tree

From: Mark Brown
Date: Tue Mar 01 2016 - 22:07:43 EST


On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 06:11:46PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Mar 2016 11:25:44 +0900 Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > It'll sort itself out by the time things get merged down into Linus'
> > tree, that's why I did it as a revert rather than just dropping the
> > patch. Linus generally takes regmap before ALSA.

> Well, I have the sound trees before the regmap tree. I also dislike

Oh, that's a bit surprising.

> having these sort of dependencies between trees. What happens if Linus
> does merge the sound tree first?

> You already merged part of the regmap tree into the sound-asoc tree,
> why not do that again with the fix?

I tend to treat things that are real fixes as opposed to things that
are test only fixes a bit differently to each other - lots of cross
merges get messy, if it's not going to hit someone doing something in a
real system I tend to not worry about it too much.

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