Re: [PATCH v5 05/14] MIPS: ingenic: Enable pinctrl for all ingenic SoCs

[Paul Cercueil]

Hi,

On 11/05/2017 13:08, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 10:08 PM, Paul Cercueil <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > There is a pinctrl driver for each of the Ingenic SoCs supported by the
> > upstream Linux kernel. In order to switch away from the old GPIO
> > platform code, we now enable the pinctrl drivers by default for the
> > Ingenic SoCs.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Paul Cercueil <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >   arch/mips/Kconfig | 1 +
> So please tell me your desired merge strategy for these bits. I can
> provide an immutable branch for pinctrl if you want to pull the deps in
> or we can just merge this orthogonally in the MIPS tree and let things
> smoothen together in the merge window.
>
> This goes for everything outside of pinctrl/gpio.
>
> If I should merge patches for other subsystems I need ACKs from
> the maintainers of MIPS etc.
>
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij
It is very unlikely that those patches will cause merge failures
if you merge it in your tree, these drivers are touched very rarely;
so I'd say you can merge them.

But to be sure I'd like Ralf's input on that.

Regards,
-Paul