Re: 5088/3: the SPI dependency

[Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:12:46 +0100
Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Right.  Clearly there's a complete lack of communication by others here
> to keep me informed about what their patches depend on, who they depend
> on, and what's being done to satisfy those dependencies.  Specifically:
> 
> 1. I was not informed that this patch relied upon the max7301 SPI
>    support, until I found that it didn't build.
> 
> 2. You were not informed that the max7301 SPI support was required for
>    patches in the ARM tree.
> 
> The question is what is to be done about it?

If I know that such dependencies exist, I'll merge everything into -mm
(which is one of the reasons why -mm is the "last" tree in the entire
stack).  Once the predecessor patches have gone into mainline I'll then
pass the successor patches over to the relevant subsystem maintainer.

I do this a lot, but if I didn't know about (or discover) the
depencencies or if I screw things up, stuff breaks.  Usually it works
out OK.


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