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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 05/14] MIPS: ingenic: Enable pinctrl for all ingenic
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To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
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From: Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net>
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Hi,

On 11/05/2017 13:08, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 10:08 PM, Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net> wrote:
>
>> There is a pinctrl driver for each of the Ingenic SoCs supported by the
>> upstream Linux kernel. In order to switch away from the old GPIO
>> platform code, we now enable the pinctrl drivers by default for the
>> Ingenic SoCs.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net>
>> ---
>>   arch/mips/Kconfig | 1 +
> So please tell me your desired merge strategy for these bits. I can
> provide an immutable branch for pinctrl if you want to pull the deps in
> or we can just merge this orthogonally in the MIPS tree and let things
> smoothen together in the merge window.
>
> This goes for everything outside of pinctrl/gpio.
>
> If I should merge patches for other subsystems I need ACKs from
> the maintainers of MIPS etc.
>
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij
>
It is very unlikely that those patches will cause merge failures
if you merge it in your tree, these drivers are touched very rarely;
so I'd say you can merge them.

But to be sure I'd like Ralf's input on that.

Regards,
-Paul