Re: [PATCH 0/2] pinctrl: Support for IMG Pistachio

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Fri, Mar 06, 2015 at 12:29:55PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> Date:   Fri, 6 Mar 2015 12:29:55 +0100
> From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
> To: Andrew Bresticker <abrestic@chromium.org>
> Cc: Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@gmail.com>, Ralf Baechle
>  <ralf@linux-mips.org>, "devicetree@vger.kernel.org"
>  <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>, "linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org"
>  <linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org>, Linux MIPS <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>,
>  "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Ezequiel
>  Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@imgtec.com>, James Hartley
>  <james.hartley@imgtec.com>, James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] pinctrl: Support for IMG Pistachio
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> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 3:15 AM, Andrew Bresticker
> <abrestic@chromium.org> wrote:
> 
> >  I'd like this to go through the MIPS tree with
> > Linus'/Alex's ACKs if possible.
> 
> Why? It will only help creating merge conflicts.
> There seem to be no compile-related dependencies, just Kconfig
> symbols, so patches using this can go in orthogonally.

It would mean all the bits for Pistachio support go through a single tree
which simplifies testing and possibly fixing significantly.  The
conflict potencial for this series is fairly low, I think.

  Ralf