Re: [PATCH v2] gpiolib: tighten up ACPI legacy gpio lookups

[Linus Walleij]

On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 6:21 PM, Dmitry Torokhov
<dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> > Hmm, I'd like to get this patch into my tree as well to apply Irina's
>> > goodix pieces on top to make sure they do not break. Would it be OK for
>> > me to just apply the patch and hope git will sort it out when we merge
>> > into next/mainline, you maybe you could prepare a 4.3-based branch with
>> > the patch for me to pull?
>>
>> I had to fuzz the patch so then you need to get the version I applied out
>> of my tree.
>>
>> But I'm not going to rebase the tree so you can pull commit
>> 9c3c9bc9cc980d8981f75109f3921576daf75723
>> from the GPIO tree if you like. Or I can make a tag there if
>> you prefer, just tell me.
>
> Both would mean I will end up with parts of your work-in-progress queue,
> which I would rather avoid. If you create a branch (lets call it A) off
> v4.3 and apply that one patch there and merge branch A it into your main
> branch (even though you already have a version of the same patch in your
> main branch) and I will merge that branch A into my tree then we are
> guaranteed not to have conflicts as git will resolve everything nicely.

I can't do that, as this patch is not applying cleanly on v4.3.

It applies cleanly to v4.4-rc1 though, would you like an immutable
branch like such based on v4.4-rc1 instead?

Linus Walleij
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