From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753327Ab2H3X4H (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2012 19:56:07 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f170.google.com ([209.85.212.170]:49162 "EHLO mail-wi0-f170.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753062Ab2H3X4F (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2012 19:56:05 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20120828074812.GA12957@gmail.com> References: <1344527268-5964-1-git-send-email-lee.jones@linaro.org> <1344527268-5964-14-git-send-email-lee.jones@linaro.org> <20120820080632.GD8450@gmail.com> <20120828074812.GA12957@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 16:56:03 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/22] ARM: ux500: Fork MSP platform registration for step-by-step DT enablement From: Linus Walleij To: Lee Jones Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, STEricsson_nomadik_linux@list.st.com, linus.walleij@stericsson.com, arnd@arndb.de, broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:48 AM, Lee Jones wrote: > On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 04:07:58PM -0700, Linus Walleij wrote: >> If you're adding and then removing *all* of them in this set, >> why add them in the first place? > > So that there's no breakage during bisection. > > You should be able to roll the kernel back in between each of these > patches and there to be full compatibility at each point. At least > that was the intention. Is that wrong? No it's correct, the only way to do what I'm thinking on may be to squash them all into one gigantic patch, which is not good either. So go ahead with this scheme, it's the lesser of two evils. Acked-by etc. Yours, Linus Walleij