Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] rsk7203: switch to using static device property, drop legacy gpio API

[Linus Walleij]

On Sat, Jul 11, 2026 at 7:15 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaubitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm sorry, but I wasn't aware that this was an urgent patch. I'm doing this
> as a hobbyist and I'm working on my own pace as I cannot always spend time
> working on kernel maintenance.

That's OK, I'm helping out by rerviewing and at times like this
also merging code.

> What I don't understand, why did you choose to use an immutable tree? Is there
> really a need for such an escalation? I find that a bit rude.

I think you don't understand what an immutable branch is.

An immutable branch is something offerered to other maintainers
so they can pull it to their trees so the patches will share the same
commit chain and SHA checksum in both trees. In this case, this
is offered to the Super-H maintainer, I guess you?

In this case the patches touches both sh and pinctrl and the two
subsystems should ideally use an immutable branch to share
the commits.

The word "immutable" in immutable branch does not mean it can't
be dropped or reverted...

If you see a technical problem with the code or really want to queue
it *only* in the sh tree I can revert it (or maybe just drop it) from the
pinctrl tree.

If not, you can git pull it in to get the same patches that are
already in the pinctrl tree, this is customary, we do it all the time.

git pull git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-pinctrl.git
ib-rsk7204

Yours,
Linus Walleij