Re: [PATCH v2] mfd: syscon: Add syscon_regmap_lookup_by_phandle_optional() function.

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Tue Nov 17 2020 - 11:41:03 EST


On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 5:07 PM Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Nov 2020, Matthias Brugger wrote:
> > On 17/11/2020 13:37, Lee Jones wrote:
> > > On Tue, 17 Nov 2020, Matthias Brugger wrote:
> >
> > If you want to go the route for me rebasing my tree on top of for-mfd-next
> > then I'd like to have at least a stable tag, so that it will be easier to
> > provide the pull-request later on. Would that be a compromise?
>
> I don't usually provide immutable branches/tags unless I'm sharing
> topic branches for other maintainers to pick-up, in order to avoid
> merge conflicts.

I think that's what Matthias is planning to do though. If he wants
to send me a Mediatek specific branch for the soc tree, it needs to
be based on a stable commit in the mtd tree to avoid duplicating
the commit.

Arnd