Re: [PATCH v9 00/10] mux controller abstraction and iio/i2c muxes

From: Peter Rosin
Date: Fri Mar 03 2017 - 14:23:58 EST


On 2017-03-03 17:52, Wolfram Sang wrote:
>
>> Jonathan, Wolfram, do you have any preferences on how this should be
>> coordinated regarding the new iio and i2c drivers (and iio changes)?
>
> You got the acks, all is fine, I think.
>
>> My plan is to at some point declare the branch immutable. Then both of
>> you can pull it in. Or?
>
> Yup, sounds good.
>
>> But now that I think about it I wonder what the point is of having
>> Greg pull it in also? Sure, third time's a charm and all that, but...
>
> AFAIU, Greg will be your "upstream", so he should definately pull the
> branch. I will just pull it in to avoid merge conflicts in my tree.
> Or did I misunderstand your question?

You got the gist of it. The piece I was missing was the conditional
pull into iio/i2c. If you only pull in order to resolve conflicts
it of course makes total sense, thanks.

And conflicts -- if they show up -- will probably be trivial given the
nature of the series. Famous last words...

Cheers,
peda