From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Walleij Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 4/6] dt-bindings: gpio: Add binding documentation for gpio-thunderx Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 22:21:28 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1488332932-2691-1-git-send-email-david.daney@cavium.com> <1488332932-2691-5-git-send-email-david.daney@cavium.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from mail-it0-f54.google.com ([209.85.214.54]:38023 "EHLO mail-it0-f54.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751883AbdCNVVb (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Mar 2017 17:21:31 -0400 Received: by mail-it0-f54.google.com with SMTP id m27so8067524iti.1 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2017 14:21:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-gpio-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org To: David Daney Cc: David Daney , Alexandre Courbot , Rob Herring , Mark Rutland , Marc Zyngier , Thomas Gleixner , "linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org" , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 5:45 PM, David Daney wrote: > On 03/14/2017 07:53 AM, Linus Walleij wrote: >> >> On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 2:48 AM, David Daney >> wrote: >> >>> Signed-off-by: David Daney >>> Acked-by: Rob Herring >> >> >> This patch applied to the GPIO tree, really simplistic so why not >> merge it. > > > I think the idea is that with Rob's Acked-by, it could be merged via the > GPIO tree when and if the other patches in the set are merged. Since I > don't maintain any trees pulled by Linus Torvalds, I am at the mercy of the > various maintainers. I agree that the code changes need to go in together. But DT bindings are sort of decoupled from the kernel i general (they are theoretically also used by other OSes such as *BSD) so they can be merged in an orthogonal manner once they are considered finished. No biggie for me though, if you prefer, I can pull it out. Yours, Linus Walleij