Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] thermal: imx: Add support for reading OCOTP through nvmem

From	Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] thermal: imx: Add support for reading OCOTP through nvmem
Date	2017-08-08 13:50 +0200
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On 08/08/17 12:38, Leonard Crestez wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-08-08 at 12:00 +0100, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:
>> On 08/08/17 08:21, Zhang Rui wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2017-07-25 at 16:08 +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 05:11:08PM +0300, Leonard Crestez wrote:
> 
>>>>> On newer imx SOCs accessing OCOTP directly is wrong because the
>>>>> ocotp clock
>>>>> needs to be enabled first. Add support for reading those same
>>>>> values through
>>>>> the nvmem API instead.
>>>>>
>>>>> The older path is preserved for compatibility with older dts and
>>>>> because it
>>>>> works correctly on imx6qdl chips.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Leonard Crestez <leonard.crestez@nxp.com>
>>>> Acked-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
> 
>>> I'm okay with the thermal change.
>>> We still need ACK for the nvmem changes in this patch series.
> 
>> NVMEM changes are already sent to Greg K H with other patches
>> (https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/26/164), should appear in next.
> 
> These patches have a compile-time dependency on each other. Wouldn't it
> make more sense for the whole series to go through a single maintainer
> tree, atomically? Most of the changes are in driver/thermal.

I was expecting that the nvmem change go in as fix in a rc release so 
that you could apply the other patches after that.

Let me ping Greg about this!!
> 
> I'm really very confused about how series that touch multiple areas are
> applied. It seems to be a mostly ad-hoc process.
> 
> --
> Regards,
> Leonard
>

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Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] thermal: imx: Add support for reading OCOTP  through nvmem Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> - 2017-08-08 09:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] thermal: imx: Add support for reading OCOTP  through nvmem Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org> - 2017-08-08 13:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] thermal: imx: Add support for reading OCOTP  through nvmem Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org> - 2017-08-08 13:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] thermal: imx: Add support for reading OCOTP  through nvmem Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> - 2017-08-08 15:00 +0200

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