Re: [PATCH v9 1/7] phy: can-transceiver: rename temporary helper function to avoid conflict

[Vladimir Oltean]

Hi Josua,

On Sun, Feb 08, 2026 at 05:38:56PM +0200, Josua Mayer wrote:
> Rename the temporary devm_mux_state_get_optional function to avoid
> conflict with upcoming implementation in multiplexer subsystem.
> 
> Acked-by: Vinod Koul <vkoul@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Josua Mayer <josua@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

In the future, when you have a series with cross-tree dependencies,
please try to think of it as individual mini-series for each tree's
'next' branch, and specify clearly that you need stable tags (to be
pulled into other trees). Telling maintainers what is your expected
merge strategy helps avoid making mistakes.

For example, if you did that in this set, you wouldn't have missed the
fact that in linux-phy/next, phy-can-transceiver is _not_ the only
occurrence of devm_mux_state_get_optional(). There's another one in
drivers/phy/renesas/phy-rcar-gen3-usb2.c, and that should be also
handled in order for trees to not enter inconsistent states.