Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] add Intel MAX 10 BMC MFD driver & hwmon sub driver

[Guenter Roeck]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 02:17:49PM +0800, Xu Yilun wrote:
> I recently realized that maintainers may have trouble to apply patches to
> their trees if the patches depend on other being-reviewed patches. So I'm
> trying to wrapper the 2 patches into one patchset and let all the
> maintainers see the dependencies.
> 
> But the patch version is then not aligned between the 2 patches. I'm not
> sure how to handle it. I just picked the smaller number on Subject, but
> you could still see their own version changes in commit message of each
> patch. Sorry if it makes confusing.
> 

If you started with separate patches, it would be much better to pick
the larger number, and add a note into the individual patch(es) stating
the reason for the gap. Everything else is highly confusing. I would not
be surprised if no one in the mfd world even looks at the mfd patch
since it went back from v6 (?) to v3 according to its subject line.

Thanks,
Guenter

> 
> Patch #1 implements the basic functions of the BMC chip for some Intel
> FPGA PCIe Acceleration Cards (PAC). The BMC is implemented using the
> Intel MAX 10 CPLD.
> 
> This BMC chip is connected to the FPGA by a SPI bus. To provide direct
> register access from the FPGA, the "SPI slave to Avalon Master Bridge"
> (spi-avmm) IP is integrated in the chip. It converts encoded streams of
> bytes from the host to the internal register read/write on the Avalon
> bus. So This driver uses the regmap-spi-avmm for register accessing.
> 
> Patch #2 adds support for the hwmon sub device in Intel MAX 10 BMC
> 
> 
> Xu Yilun (2):
>   mfd: intel-m10-bmc: add Intel MAX 10 BMC chip support for Intel FPGA
>     PAC
>   hwmon: intel-m10-bmc-hwmon: add hwmon support for Intel MAX 10 BMC
> 
>  .../ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-intel-m10-bmc         |  15 +
>  Documentation/hwmon/index.rst                      |   1 +
>  Documentation/hwmon/intel-m10-bmc-hwmon.rst        |  78 +++++
>  drivers/hwmon/Kconfig                              |  11 +
>  drivers/hwmon/Makefile                             |   1 +
>  drivers/hwmon/intel-m10-bmc-hwmon.c                | 334 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/mfd/Kconfig                                |  13 +
>  drivers/mfd/Makefile                               |   2 +
>  drivers/mfd/intel-m10-bmc.c                        | 164 ++++++++++
>  include/linux/mfd/intel-m10-bmc.h                  |  65 ++++
>  10 files changed, 684 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-intel-m10-bmc
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/hwmon/intel-m10-bmc-hwmon.rst
>  create mode 100644 drivers/hwmon/intel-m10-bmc-hwmon.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/mfd/intel-m10-bmc.c
>  create mode 100644 include/linux/mfd/intel-m10-bmc.h
> 
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