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

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Vladimir,

On Thu, 12 Feb 2026 at 17:48, Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

To his defense, the one in drivers/phy/renesas/phy-rcar-gen3-usb2.c
is a recent addition.

So this is yet another case of "convert all current users" (i.e. those
present in the typical subsystem base, typically *-rc1), with new
users popping up in -next in parallel, which happens all the time...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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