Re: [PATCH 1/2] MIPS: dts: remove bogus bcm96358nb4ser.dtb from dtb-y entry

From: Rob Herring
Date: Wed Nov 08 2017 - 11:52:03 EST


On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 5:00 AM, Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2017-11-06 19:41 GMT+09:00 James Hogan <jhogan@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 05, 2017 at 11:11:38PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>>> +CC Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> +CC linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> +CC Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> +CC Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>>
>>> I missed to CC MIPS maintainers.
>>
>> Yes, please resend the patch so it lands in patchwork.linux-mips.org.
>
>
> This is a part of clean-up series of DT building.
>
> I want Acked-by from MIPS maintainers
> so that the whole series can go to a different tree.
> (DT or Kbuild).
>
>
> Sam addressed more clean-up candidates in MIPS Makefiles
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10041879/
>
> So, I will probably end up with touching those Makefiles more.
>
> All patches must go to the same tree.
>
>
>>> 2017-11-05 14:30 GMT+09:00 Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> > arch/mips/boot/dts/brcm/bcm96358nb4ser.dts does not exist, so
>>> > we cannot build bcm96358nb4ser.dtb .
>>
>> This appears to be due to the file being renamed in commit 695835511f96
>> ("MIPS: BMIPS: rename bcm96358nb4ser to bcm6358-neufbox4-sercom").
>> Please can you update the commit message when you resend to mention the
>> cause of the problem.
>>
>> You could also add the following if you like while you're at it:
>>
>> Fixes: 695835511f96 ("MIPS: BMIPS: rename bcm96358nb4ser to bcm6358-neufbox4-sercom")
>> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.9+

I think this one can be applied independently and we'd want it to if
we tag for stable. So I think it can go thru the MIPS tree.

Rob