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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-03 19:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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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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