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Miller" , Florian Fainelli , Heiner Kallweit , Jernej Skrabec , Jonas Karlman , Laurent Pinchart , Neil Armstrong , Russell King , "open list:DRM PANEL DRIVERS" , ACPI Devel Maling List , netdev Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] Add support for software nodes to gpiolib Message-ID: <20190930224456.GV237523@dtor-ws> References: <20190911075215.78047-1-dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> <20190917002207.GJ237523@dtor-ws> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20190917002207.GJ237523@dtor-ws> User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Linus, On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 05:22:07PM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 10:55:47AM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 8:52 AM Dmitry Torokhov > > wrote: > > > > > If we agree in principle, I would like to have the very first 3 patches > > > in an immutable branch off maybe -rc8 so that it can be pulled into > > > individual subsystems so that patches switching various drivers to > > > fwnode_gpiod_get_index() could be applied. > > > > I think it seems a bit enthusiastic to have non-GPIO subsystems > > pick up these changes this close to the merge window so my plan > > is to merge patches 1.2.3 (1 already merged) and then you could > > massage the other subsystems in v5.4-rc1. > > > > But if other subsystems say "hey we want do fix this in like 3 days" > > then I'm game for an immutable branch as well. > > No, if it is still has a chance for -rc1 then I'm good. I was thinking > if it does not go into -rc1 I could convince some of them merge a > targeted immutable branch off -rc8 or 5.3 final and then apply patches > relevant to their subsystems so we do not have to wait till 5.6 to land > everything. So I guess we missed -rc1. Any chance we could get an immutable branch off -rc1 that you will pull into your main branch and I hopefully can persuade other maintainers to pull as well so we do not need to drag it over 2+ merge windows? Thanks. -- Dmitry