Re: [PATCH v6 2/3] clocksource: Add NPS400 timers driver

[Daniel Lezcano]

On 03/29/2016 02:52 PM, Vineet Gupta wrote:
> On Monday 21 March 2016 07:54 PM, Noam Camus wrote:
> > From: Noam Camus <noamc@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Add internal tick generator which is shared by all cores.
> > Each cluster of cores view it through dedicated address.
> > This is used for SMP system where all CPUs synced by same
> > clock source.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Noam Camus <noamc@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> @Noam, AFAIKR, Daniel did ack the prev version - can you please double check and
> repost this again.
>
> @Daniel, this patch depends on a include/soc header introduced by patch 1/3 of the
> series. For 4.7, how should we merge it - take both via ARC tree !

There are two ways to do this when there are multiple tree dependencies:
  - put a common branch to be shared between trees
  - ask for the maintainer for an acked-by and pick it in a single tree

Given the nature of the patch (initial submission), I agree you pick it 
through your tree.

  -- Daniel

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