Re: [PATCH v7 5/5] mfd: max77541: Add ADI MAX77541/MAX77540 PMIC Support

From: Mark Brown
Date: Tue Jun 27 2023 - 10:26:14 EST


On Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 02:56:15PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jun 2023, Rob Herring wrote:

> > The whole series has all the acks/reviews needed for you to apply the
> > whole thing, so why not take the whole thing? Plus this series has been
> > sitting for 2 months. Not a great experience for submitters...

> Patches are missing Acked-by tags.

> Reviewed-by != Acked-by

> I cannot merge other subsystem's patches without and Acked-by.

Things should be OK to merge if they've got a Reviewed-by, that's
generally treated a lot like a stronger ack and people won't tend to
bother with an ack if they've done enough that they're happy to do a
Reviewed-by.

In any case, there's no need to hold all the bits that do seem OK for
some leaf driver that has some problems, the leaf driver can always get
applied incrementally either in the same branch or in another tree based
on a cross tree merge. That way the bits that are fine can make
progress and there's less people getting the resends of the bits that
still need work.

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