Re: [PATCH v8 1/2] dt-bindings: misc: aspeed-p2a-ctrl: add support

From: Rob Herring
Date: Fri Mar 29 2019 - 09:38:01 EST


On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 12:03 PM Patrick Venture <venture@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 9:50 AM Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 14:21:55 -0700, Patrick Venture wrote:
> > > Document the ast2400, ast2500 PCI-to-AHB bridge control driver bindings.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Patrick Venture <venture@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > Changes for v8:
> > > - None
> > > Changes for v7:
> > > - Moved node under the syscon node it requires
> > > Changes for v6:
> > > - None
> > > Changes for v5:
> > > - None
> > > Changes for v4:
> > > - None
> > > Changes for v3:
> > > - None
> > > Changes for v2:
> > > - Added comment about syscon required parameter.
> > > ---
> > > .../bindings/misc/aspeed-p2a-ctrl.txt | 48 +++++++++++++++++++
> > > 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+)
> > > create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/misc/aspeed-p2a-ctrl.txt
> > >
> >
> > Please add Acked-by/Reviewed-by tags when posting new versions. However,
> > there's no need to repost patches *only* to add the tags. The upstream
> > maintainer will do that for acks received on the version they apply.
> >
> > If a tag was not added on purpose, please state why and what changed.
>
> Adding tags in this case is adding a change version? I was doing this
> to keep the two patches version-synced. I thought that was required.
> There was a version change in the other patch in this set.

Adding tags is not considered a change. I gave a Reviewed-by in v7.
Subsequent versions should carry that tag if there's no change (or
only minor changes) in this patch. What happens in the other patches
is not really important. Maintainers are not going to go searching
thru the versions to find all the ack/review tags. And if I've already
reviewed this, I don't want to look at it again.

Rob