Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] gpiolib: Introduce gpio_device_get() and gpio_device_put()

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Tue Nov 29 2022 - 09:49:07 EST


On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 02:54:10PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 25, 2022 at 7:11 PM Andy Shevchenko
> <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Introduce gpio_device_get() and gpio_device_put() helpers
> > and convert existing users.

> This doesn't apply to my for-next branch, can you rebase and resend
> (just this one, the other is applied).

The problem is that you don't merge or cherry-pick fixes into your
for-next branch and they are getting diverged.

In PDx86 subsystem we decided to cherry-pick the fixes into for-next.
Some other subsystems are doing back-merges (but I remember that Linus
T. complained about back merges, although I dunno if it's still
the case). Some subsystems merges their fixes into for-next, dunno
if it's the best practice either.

That said, this can be submitted after v6.2-rc1 is out.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko