Re: [RFC next v1 0/5] stmmac: honor the GPIO flags for the PHY reset GPIO

From: Martin Blumenstingl
Date: Sun Jun 09 2019 - 18:37:25 EST


Hi Andrew,

On Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 10:45 PM Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Patch #1 and #4 are minor cleanups which follow the boyscout rule:
> > "Always leave the campground cleaner than you found it."
>
> > I
> > am also looking for suggestions how to handle these cross-tree changes
> > (patch #2 belongs to the linux-gpio tree, patches #1, 3 and #4 should
> > go through the net-next tree. I will re-send patch #5 separately as
> > this should go through Kevin's linux-amlogic tree).
>
> Hi Martin
>
> Patches 1 and 4 don't seem to have and dependencies. So i would
> suggest splitting them out and submitting them to netdev for merging
> independent of the rest.
OK, I will do that but after the GPIO changes are applied because only
then I can get rid of that "np" variable

> Linus can probably create a stable branch with the GPIO changes, which
> David can pull into net-next, and then apply the stmmac changes on
> top.
let's go this way since Linus is happy with that route also.
I'll re-spin v2 tomorrow


Martin