Re: [PATCH v2 03/10] pinctrl: sunxi: add A20 support to A10 driver

From: Icenowy Zheng
Date: Thu May 04 2017 - 10:46:05 EST




ä 2017å5æ4æ GMT+08:00 äå10:41:52, Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> åå:
>On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 10:03:26PM +0800, Icenowy Zheng wrote:
>>
>>
>> ä 2017å5æ4æ GMT+08:00 äå10:02:20, Maxime Ripard
><maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> åå:
>> >On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 09:49:59PM +0800, Icenowy Zheng wrote:
>> >> static const struct of_device_id sun4i_a10_pinctrl_match[] = {
>> >> - { .compatible = "allwinner,sun4i-a10-pinctrl", },
>> >> + {
>> >> + .compatible = "allwinner,sun4i-a10-pinctrl",
>> >> + .data = (void *)PINCTRL_SUN4I_A10
>> >> + },
>> >> + {
>> >> + .compatible = "allwinner,sun7i-a20-pinctrl",
>> >> + .data = (void *)PINCTRL_SUN7I_A20
>> >> + },
>> >> {}
>> >> };
>> >
>> >This means you're going to have two drivers probing for the same
>> >device: this driver, and the old one. This is not ok, and probably
>> >introduces some corner cases.
>>
>> The A20 driver is dropped in the next commit.
>
>Yes, and that is an issue for bisectability. Anyone that will checkout
>between those two commits will have a broken kernel, and that is not
>ok. Any commit should be in a working state.

Squash them together?

>
>Maxime