Re: [GIT PULL] Second Round of Renesas ARM Based SoC Drivers Updates for v4.10

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

Hi Olof,

On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 2:35 AM, Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 03:04:35PM +0100, Simon Horman wrote:
>> Please consider these second round of Renesas ARM based SoC drivers updates for v4.10.
>>
>> This pull request is based on a merge of:
>>
>> * The previous round of such requests, tagged as renesas-drivers-for-v4.10,
>>   which you have already pulled.
>> * The soc-device-match-tag1 tag of Geert Uytterhoeven's renesas-driver's tree.
>>   This is included to provide core soc_device_match() infrastructure which
>>   is a dependency of identifying SoC and registering with SoC bus.
>>
>>
>> The following changes since commit 437c4eeb0bd4c1d68817be997716f52b8c22a9c3:
>>
>>   Merge tag 'soc-device-match-tag1' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geert/renesas-drivers into HEAD (2016-11-15 14:12:57 +0100)
>>
>> are available in the git repository at:
>>
>>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/horms/renesas.git tags/renesas-drivers2-for-v4.10
>>
>> for you to fetch changes up to 63ee9e2ba47dbdb42156c9b940515cfd49e78c91:
>>
>>   soc: renesas: Identify SoC and register with the SoC bus (2016-11-17 14:37:20 +0100)
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> Second Round of Renesas ARM Based SoC Drivers Updates for v4.10
>>
>> * Identify SoC and register with the SoC bus
>> * Add support for the r8a7745 SoC to rcar-sysc
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> Geert Uytterhoeven (2):
>>       ARM: shmobile: Document DT bindings for Product Register
>>       soc: renesas: Identify SoC and register with the SoC bus
>>
>> Sergei Shtylyov (2):
>>       ARM: shmobile: r8a7745: add power domain index macros
>>       soc: renesas: rcar-sysc: add R8A7745 support
>>
>
> So, this pull request contains 8 patches, not 4. Seems like your pull
> request doesn't show any of the code from Geert's branch, didn't mention
> it in the tag and only in the email text above. Furthermore, Geert's
> branch modifies driver core code, so it's extra important to make sure
> it's clear that it's an unusual pull request.

Please accept our apologies for failing to make this clearer.

> Given that this modifies driver core, please either merge that code
> through Greg first, or get an ack from him. If you merge through him,
> make sure it's on a standalone topic branch that we can share.

I provided my soc-device-match branch (tag soc-device-match-tag1) as an
immutable base, to be included by all interested parties that need the
soc_device_match() infrastructure (Freescale/NXP, Samsung, Renesas).
Its core parts have been acked by Greg, and the fixes by Arnd and/or Greg
(the last fix only received an informal ack, that's why I hadn't added the
ack).
This branch has already been pulled by Ulf, and is present in mmc/next, as
a dependency for a Freescale/NXP driver update.

I hope my explanation helps. If anything is still unclear, please ask.
Thanks for reconsidering!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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