Re: 5088/3: the SPI dependency

[Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@xxxxxx>]

David, what are your plans wrt SPI changes? I think the required patches 
(max7301) are already in -mm, can we merge them, please? It is a new 
driver, so should not make any damage.

Thanks
Guennadi

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

> Since we are over a week into the merge window, and I see no sign of
> the SPI tree merging, it's time to make a decision on what to do about
> the outstanding changes in my tree which depend on the SPI tree having
> been merged first (iow, the presence of linux/spi/max7301.h.)
> 
> One solution is to continue twiddling my thumbs waiting for the SPI
> tree to merge, which frankly is utterly boring and is just a waste of
> my time.
> 
> Another solution is to back out the change, but that's extremely
> painful to do because soo much other stuff relies on that commit.
> 
> Or we could commit a change on top of everything backing out the changes
> to pcm027.c which require the SPI tree to merge first, and have the bits
> which rely on max7301.h submitted later (which is, imho, what should've
> happened.)
> 
> Or we could ignore the issue entirely and just merge the remaining
> changes.
> 
> Unless I hear otherwise, I shall be intending to back out the troublesome
> changes to pcm027.c and merge that.
> 
> 

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Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D.
Freelance Open-Source Software Developer

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