Re: Fwd: [PATCH] bq27x00_battery: Some fixes

From: Lars-Peter Clausen
Date: Mon Jan 31 2011 - 14:14:58 EST


On 01/31/2011 07:27 PM, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 07:15:06PM +0100, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
>> On 01/31/2011 02:54 PM, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
>>> The same is for this patch.
>>>
>>> Comments, Reviewed-by or Acked-by?
>>>
>>> p.s. FWIW, I already asked Pali to factor out bq27x00_battery_time()
>>> fix to a separate patch.
>>>
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I have a larger series pending which adds support for the bq27000 chip and polling to
>> the bq27x00 driver. Since this series does some refactoring of the bq27x00 driver, it
>> might make sense to rebase this (and the other) patch ontop of that series instead of
>> the other way around.
>
> Pali was first to send out his work, so I think that it would make
> sense to ask you to rebase your work on top. Especially since Pali's
> patches were somewhat reviewed already.

I suspect it to be substantial more work to rebase mine on top of his. That's why I'm
asking for a exception in this case. I would be willing to adjust his patches, so
they can be applied on top of mine.

>
> I hope Pali will resend the fixed versions quickly enough so
> that I'll apply the patches asap and you'll easily use git
> for rebasing.
>

git won't help in this case, because my patches basically rewrite the parts changed
by Palis patches. It would be one merge conflict after another, I guess.

> Thanks!
>

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