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Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] hwrng: Add support for STMicroelectronics' RNG IP

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On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 03:15:39PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
>
> > I prefer not to merge patches that cannot be tested.  Without
> > the DT bits in patch 6 the other five patches are useless.  So
> > I think patch 6 should be applied together with the other five
> > which add the driver.
> 
> That's crazy talk.  If all subsystem maintainers abide by this rule
> there would be chaos.  We'd either need to send pull-requests to each
> other for every set which crossed a subsystems boundary, or 1000's of
> merge conflicts would ensue at merge time.
> 
> The (sensible) rule we normally stick to is; as long as there isn't
> a _build_ dependency, then the patches should filter though their
> respective trees; _functional_ dependencies have nothing to do with
> us as maintainers.  Another chaos preventing rule we abide by is; thou
> shalt not apply patches belonging to other maintainer's subsystems
> without the appropriate Ack-by and a subsequent "you may take this
> though your tree" and/or "please send me an immutable pull-request".

So you want the series to be merged in two parts via two different
trees where neither can be tested? That sounds crazy to me.

Cheers,
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Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] hwrng: Add support for STMicroelectronics' RNG IP Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> - 2015-09-29 16:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] hwrng: Add support for STMicroelectronics' RNG IP Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2015-09-30 15:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] hwrng: Add support for STMicroelectronics' RNG IP Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> - 2015-09-30 16:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] hwrng: Add support for STMicroelectronics' RNG IP Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> - 2015-09-30 16:30 +0200
        Re: [STLinux Kernel] [PATCH v2 0/7] hwrng: Add support for  STMicroelectronics' RNG IP Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@st.com> - 2015-09-30 17:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] hwrng: Add support for STMicroelectronics' RNG IP Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> - 2015-09-30 17:00 +0200

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