Re: [PATCH v3 01/17] mfd: madera: Add register definitions for Cirrus Logic Madera codecs

From: Richard Fitzgerald
Date: Thu Jun 29 2017 - 05:12:18 EST


On Wed, 2017-06-28 at 20:26 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 09:33:38AM +0100, Richard Fitzgerald wrote:
> > On Mon, 2017-06-05 at 11:07 +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
>
> > > For my own reference:
> > > Acked-for-MFD-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> > Can I suggest that you take this patch into the mfd tree? Other
> > subsystem maintainers will have to base on that but it avoids me keeping
> > emailing out nearly 9000 lines of register definitions each time I do an
> > update to the other patches in the chain.
>
> Yes, please! It also helps other maintainers see that the early bits of
> the series we depend on are making progress.

I guess taking all the MFD code when Lee is happy with it would also be
acceptable? There's several multi-thousand-line files in there too.

There are build dependencies between the subsystems but I don't know how
the maintainers prefer to deal with that - keep the patches as a set or
cross-merge branches.