Re: [PATCH 5/5] OF: Introduce utility helper functions

From: Grant Likely
Date: Mon Nov 11 2013 - 21:37:57 EST


On Wed, 06 Nov 2013 06:53:13 -0800, Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Pantelis,
>
> On 11/06/2013 01:34 AM, Pantelis Antoniou wrote:
>
> >
> > As I mentioned earlier I'm trying to get this accepted in general term and then we'll
> > get around fixing any minor problems.
> >
>
> I think it is quite likely at this point that your series will be accepted.
>
> However, from my experience with larger submissions like this one, it is quite common
> that the maintainers ask for all feedback to be addressed before that happens -
> especially for feedback like this, where there is common understanding that some
> changes to the code are necessary.
>
> Maybe the device tree maintainers could chime in at this point and let us all know
> what will need to happen to get the series accepted.

Since it is a big series, I would like to be able to "front-load" the
series of changes with straighforward changes that are easy to merge.
There are some exceptions though, such as when new APIs with users later
in the series. I don't really want to pull in a new API separately from
the user most of the time.

g.

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