From: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
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Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>,
Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>,
Kieran Bingham <kieranbingham@gmail.com>,
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] hwrng: Add support for STMicroelectronics' RNG IP
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 15:50:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150930145034.GE27197@x1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150930142812.GA19039@gondor.apana.org.au>
On Wed, 30 Sep 2015, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 03:15:39PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> >
> > > I prefer not to merge patches that cannot be tested. Without
> > > the DT bits in patch 6 the other five patches are useless. So
> > > I think patch 6 should be applied together with the other five
> > > which add the driver.
> >
> > That's crazy talk. If all subsystem maintainers abide by this rule
> > there would be chaos. We'd either need to send pull-requests to each
> > other for every set which crossed a subsystems boundary, or 1000's of
> > merge conflicts would ensue at merge time.
> >
> > The (sensible) rule we normally stick to is; as long as there isn't
> > a _build_ dependency, then the patches should filter though their
> > respective trees; _functional_ dependencies have nothing to do with
> > us as maintainers. Another chaos preventing rule we abide by is; thou
> > shalt not apply patches belonging to other maintainer's subsystems
> > without the appropriate Ack-by and a subsequent "you may take this
> > though your tree" and/or "please send me an immutable pull-request".
>
> So you want the series to be merged in two parts via two different
> trees where neither can be tested? That sounds crazy to me.
Who is going to checkout the HWRNG tree and run-test it on it's own on
all of the required hardware? No one. Agreed, subsystem trees should
be bisectably (new word? :D) buildable as per my first rule above, but
that's it. Per-subsystem repos are not designed to be tested for
full-functionality orthogonally, that's the point of Stephen's -next
tree.
Please take my other points into consideration too. The kernel would
be unmainatinable if we all stuck to your rule. No-one else has that
rule, and for good reason.
--
Lee Jones
Linaro STMicroelectronics Landing Team Lead
Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-30 14:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-17 13:45 [PATCH v2 0/7] hwrng: Add support for STMicroelectronics' RNG IP Lee Jones
2015-09-17 13:45 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] Documentation: hw_random: Fix device node name reference /dev/hw_random => /dev/hwrng Lee Jones
2015-09-18 10:18 ` Kieran Bingham
2015-09-17 13:45 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] hwrng: Kconfig: " Lee Jones
2015-09-18 10:19 ` Kieran Bingham
2015-09-17 13:45 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] hwrng: core: Simplify RNG switching from sysfs Lee Jones
2015-09-17 14:08 ` Peter Korsgaard
2015-09-17 13:45 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] hwrng: st: Provide DT bindings for ST's Random Number Generator Lee Jones
2015-09-18 16:21 ` Stephen Boyd
2015-09-18 16:23 ` Lee Jones
2015-09-17 13:45 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] hwrng: st: Add support for ST's HW " Lee Jones
2015-09-18 10:44 ` Kieran Bingham
2015-10-05 10:44 ` Daniel Thompson
2015-10-05 12:11 ` Lee Jones
2015-10-05 12:54 ` Daniel Thompson
2015-10-05 14:52 ` Lee Jones
2015-09-17 13:45 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] ARM: STi: STiH407: Enable the 2 HW Random Number Generators for STiH4{07,10} Lee Jones
2015-10-01 10:57 ` [STLinux Kernel] [PATCH v2 6/7] ARM: STi: STiH407: Enable the 2 HW Random Number Generators for STiH4{07, 10} Maxime Coquelin
2015-09-17 13:45 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] MAINTAINERS: Add ST's Random Number Generator to the ST entry Lee Jones
2015-09-18 14:07 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] hwrng: Add support for STMicroelectronics' RNG IP Herbert Xu
2015-09-18 14:53 ` Lee Jones
2015-09-18 15:11 ` Herbert Xu
2015-09-18 15:51 ` Lee Jones
2015-09-18 23:12 ` Herbert Xu
2015-09-19 9:21 ` Lee Jones
2015-09-20 1:23 ` Herbert Xu
2015-09-20 4:39 ` Lee Jones
2015-09-29 14:29 ` Lee Jones
2015-09-30 13:47 ` Herbert Xu
2015-09-30 14:15 ` Lee Jones
2015-09-30 14:28 ` Herbert Xu
2015-09-30 14:49 ` [STLinux Kernel] " Maxime Coquelin
2015-09-30 14:50 ` Lee Jones [this message]
2015-09-29 9:20 ` Peter Griffin
2015-09-29 10:42 ` Lee Jones
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