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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: "Petr Štetiar" <ynezz@true.cz>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
	Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@bootlin.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>,
	Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>,
	Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 08/10] staging: octeon-ethernet: support of_get_mac_address new ERR_PTR error
Date: Fri, 3 May 2019 22:40:01 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190503194001.GP2239@kadam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190503190730.GH71477@meh.true.cz>

On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 09:07:30PM +0200, Petr Štetiar wrote:
> Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> [2019-05-03 13:34:56]:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 09:56:05AM +0200, Petr Štetiar wrote:
> > > There was NVMEM support added to of_get_mac_address, so it could now
> > > return NULL and ERR_PTR encoded error values, so we need to adjust all
> > > current users of of_get_mac_address to this new fact.
> > 
> > Which commit added NVMEM support?  It hasn't hit net-next or linux-next
> > yet...  Very strange.
> 
> this patch is a part of the patch series[1], where the 1st patch[2] adds this
> NVMEM support to of_get_mac_address and follow-up patches are adjusting
> current of_get_mac_address users to the new ERR_PTR return value.

Basically all the patches need to be folded together otherwise you're
breaking git bisectibility.  Imagine that we just apply patch #1 right?
Then all the callers will be broken.  It's not allowed.

regards,
dan carpenter


  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-03 19:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1556870168-26864-1-git-send-email-ynezz@true.cz>
2019-05-03  7:55 ` [PATCH v3 01/10] of_net: add NVMEM support to of_get_mac_address Petr Štetiar
2019-05-03  8:44   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2019-05-03  9:15     ` Petr Štetiar
2019-05-03  9:36       ` Maxime Ripard
2019-05-03 12:05       ` Andrew Lunn
2019-05-03  7:55 ` [PATCH v3 02/10] dt-bindings: doc: reflect new NVMEM of_get_mac_address behaviour Petr Štetiar
2019-05-03  7:56 ` [PATCH v3 03/10] net: macb: support of_get_mac_address new ERR_PTR error Petr Štetiar
2019-05-03  7:56 ` [PATCH v3 04/10] net: davinci: " Petr Štetiar
2019-05-03  7:56 ` [PATCH v3 05/10] net: ethernet: " Petr Štetiar
2019-05-03  7:56 ` [PATCH v3 06/10] net: usb: " Petr Štetiar
2019-05-03  7:56 ` [PATCH v3 07/10] net: wireless: " Petr Štetiar
2019-05-03  7:56 ` [PATCH v3 08/10] staging: octeon-ethernet: " Petr Štetiar
2019-05-03 10:34   ` Dan Carpenter
2019-05-03 19:07     ` Petr Štetiar
2019-05-03 19:40       ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2019-05-03  7:56 ` [PATCH v3 09/10] ARM: Kirkwood: " Petr Štetiar
2019-05-03  7:56 ` [PATCH v3 10/10] powerpc: tsi108: " Petr Štetiar

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