Re: [PATCH 2/6] MIPS: SGI-IP27: remove setup of RTC platform device

[Thomas Bogendoerfer]

On Mon, 08 Apr 2019 10:05:28 -0700 (PDT)
David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@xxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon,  8 Apr 2019 16:20:54 +0200
> 
> > RTC platform device will be setup by new IOC3 MFD driver, therefore
> > remove it from IP27 platform code.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@xxxxxxx>
> 
> You cannot break the driver like this.
> 
> Your patch series must be fully bisectable, which means that after
> this patch is applied things still must continue working properly.

I see your point and the ethernet driver itself will work properly, but of
course IP27 will be working again after applying the whole series. One
way I can see to solve this to also add the addition of the serial driver
into it. Then we are on par with the current driver. Does this solve your
concern ?

Thomas.

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