From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lee Jones Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] mfd: ti-lmu: Remove LM3532 backlight driver references Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2019 08:57:09 +0100 Message-ID: <20190403075709.GD11301@dell> References: <20190321142838.22985-1-dmurphy@ti.com> <20190321142838.22985-3-dmurphy@ti.com> <8769a95d-179f-6219-0a63-9dd623cdd297@gmail.com> <20190325075317.GW4731@dell> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Jacek Anaszewski Cc: Dan Murphy , robh+dt@kernel.org, pavel@ucw.cz, tony@atomide.com, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-leds@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-leds@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 25 Mar 2019, Jacek Anaszewski wrote: > On 3/25/19 8:53 AM, Lee Jones wrote: > > On Sat, 23 Mar 2019, Jacek Anaszewski wrote: > > > > > Hi Lee, > > > > > > Can we have your ack for this going via LED tree, please? > > > > Patch looks okay. > > > > You can take it through the LED, but if you do I will need you to send > > me a pull-request to a minimised immutable branch please. > > > > If you cannot do this, I can apply the set and provide the same to > > you. > > > > If you choose the former: > > > > Acked-for-MFD-by: Lee Jones > > > > Please let me know what you decide > > > > I've been exposing integration branches in the past, but after Linus' > message [0] I have my doubts now. I wonder if it wouldn't make more > sense if I just took the patches, and you'd cherry-pick them only in > case such a need occurs. This way we would avoid this whole merge > noise, which in an optimistic and very plausible case will not be needed > at all. > > [0] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/4/19/1104 That email is 2 years old, and does not seem relevant to what we're trying to achieve. I've only ever had issues when *not* creating immutable branches for these, cross subsystem scenarios. The shared branches I create are always minimalist and never change. I'm happy to take the patches and create a suitable pull-request for you if you are uncomfortable with the process. I just need your Ack to do so. Up to you. -- Lee Jones [李琼斯] Linaro Services Technical Lead Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog