Re: [PATCH v2] phy: cadence: Sierra: Add support for skipping configuration

From: Vinod Koul
Date: Fri Feb 04 2022 - 01:14:39 EST


On 03-02-22, 11:25, Aswath Govindraju wrote:
> Hi Vinod,
>
> On 03/02/22 5:44 am, Vinod Koul wrote:
> > On 02-02-22, 20:14, Aswath Govindraju wrote:
> >> Hi Vinod,
> >>
> >> On 02/02/22 7:53 pm, Vinod Koul wrote:
> >>> On 28-01-22, 12:56, Aswath Govindraju wrote:
> >>>> In some cases, a single SerDes instance can be shared between two different
> >>>> processors, each using a separate link. In these cases, the SerDes
> >>>> configuration is done in an earlier boot stage. Therefore, add support to
> >>>> skip reconfiguring, if it is was already configured beforehand.
> >>>
> >>> This fails to apply, pls rebase and resend
> >>>
> >>
> >> On rebasing, I am seeing no difference in the patch and I am able to
> >> apply it on top of linux-next/master commit 6abab1b81b65. May I know if
> >> there is any other branch that I would need to rebase this patch on top of?
> >
> > It should be based on phy-next which is at
> > 1f1b0c105b19ac0d90975e2569040da1216489b7 now
> >
>
> I have posted a respin of this patch after rebasing it on top of
> phy-next. One aspect that is not clear to me is, phy-next branch does
> not have the following commit which is present in linux-next master,
>
> 29afbd769ca3 phy: cadence: Sierra: fix error handling bugs in probe()

This is in fixes
>
> When the respin of this patch(v3) is merged with linux-next/master
> wouldn't it cause merge-conflicts?
>
> May I know how would this be handled?

If need arises (we have a dependency) I would merge fixes into next and
then apply patches. Cover letter of the patches should mention that

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~Vinod