RE: [PATCH v7 5/5] mfd: max77541: Add ADI MAX77541/MAX77540 PMIC Support

[Sahin, Okan]

>On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 08:39:38AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
>
>> I'll try anything once!
>
>> Fair warning, I think this is going to massively complicate things.
>
>> Either we're going to be left with a situation where child-driver
>> maintainers are scrabbling around looking for previous versions for the
>> MFD pull-request or contributors being forced to wait a full cycle for
>> their dependencies to arrive in the maintainer's base.
>
>If people are resending after the MFD has gone in they really ought to
>be including the pull request in the cover letter, with some combination
>of either referencing the mail or just saying "this depends on the
>signed tag at url+tag", the same way they would for any other dependency.
>
>I can't see how you applying stuff when you can slow things down TBH,
>the MFD bits will be applied faster and either people can pull in a
>shared tag or you can apply more commits on top of the existing core
>driver.
>
>> I'm not sure why simply providing your Ack when you're happy with the
>> driver and forgetting about the set until the pull-request arrives, like
>> we've been doing for nearly a decade now, isn't working for you anymore
>> but I'm mostly sure this method will be a regression.
>
>Like I said I've not been doing that, I've mostly been just applying the
>driver when it's ready.  This might not have been so visible to you
>since it means that the regulator driver doesn't appear in the series by
>the time the MFD settles down.  The whole "Acked-for-MFD" has always
>been a bit confusing TBH, it's not a normal ack ("go ahead and apply
>this, I'm fine with it") so it was never clear what the intention was.
>
>Before I started just applying the drivers there used to be constant
>problems with things like tags going missing (which some of the time is
>the submitter just not carrying them but can also be the result of some
>churn causing them to be deliberately dropped due to changes) or
>forgetting the series as you suggest and then not looking at some other
>very similarly named series that was also getting lots of versions after
>thinking it was one that had been reviewed already.  It was all very
>frustrating.  Not doing the tags until the dependencies have settled
>down means that if it's in my inbox it at least consistently needs some
>kind of attention and that the submitter didn't drop tags or anything so
>I know why there's no tag on it even though the version number is high,
>though it's not ideal either.

Hi Mark and Lee,

Is there anything that I need to do for this patch set. I have received reviewed
by tag for all of them so far. 

Regards,
Okan Sahin