Re: [PATCH v9 3/5] clk: imx: add SCCG PLL type

From: Shawn Guo
Date: Tue Nov 13 2018 - 09:25:51 EST


On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 04:05:44PM +0000, A.s. Dong wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
>
> [...]
> > > I already sent the 12th version of this current patch series and I
> > > would really like to get this in ASAP so that the booting up of imx8mq will
> > not be delayed.
> > >
> >
> > Ok. Well we're in rc1 right now, and so we're not merging new drivers into
> > mainline. I can merge the clk driver into clk-next, but you'll have to wait for the
> > stabilization period to end (approximately 6 or 7 weeks) before this can get
> > into the next kernel version. It will be in linux-next much sooner of course.
>
> That would be great if you can help that.
> We're now working with SUSE to enable i.MX8 support.
> Their criteria is only backporting patches which must be at least in maintainer's
> next tree already. So either picked up by you or Shawn would help a lot on it.
>
> BTW, one simple question is that because MX8MQ DTS patches depends on
> this clock driver series. How would you suggest this series to go through
> your tree or Shawn's tree?

Once Stephen has a topic branch for the patches, I can pull it into my
tree to resolve the DT dependency.

Shawn