Re: [PATCH v5 4/6] dt-bindings: gpio: Add binding documentation for gpio-thunderx

[Linus Walleij]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 5:45 PM, David Daney <ddaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 03/14/2017 07:53 AM, Linus Walleij wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 2:48 AM, David Daney <david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>
>> This patch applied to the GPIO tree, really simplistic so why not
>> merge it.
>
>
> I think the idea is that with Rob's Acked-by, it could be merged via the
> GPIO tree when and if the other patches in the set are merged.  Since I
> don't maintain any trees pulled by Linus Torvalds, I am at the mercy of the
> various maintainers.

I agree that the code changes need to go in together.

But DT bindings are sort of decoupled from the kernel i general
(they are theoretically also used by other OSes such as *BSD)
so they can be merged in an orthogonal manner once they are
considered finished.

No biggie for me though, if you prefer, I can pull it out.

Yours,
Linus Walleij