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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/7] watchdog: mtk: allow setting timeout in
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From:   Sean Wang <sean.wang@mediatek.com>
To:     Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
        Marcus Folkesson <marcus.folkesson@gmail.com>
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Date:   Sun, 11 Feb 2018 15:46:24 +0800
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On Sat, 2018-02-10 at 17:52 -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 02/10/2018 12:12 PM, Marcus Folkesson wrote:
> > Hello Sean,
> > 
> > On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 01:43:28PM +0100, Marcus Folkesson wrote:
> >> Hello Sean,
> >>
> >> On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 07:10:02PM +0800, Sean Wang wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi, Marcus
> >>>
> >>> The changes you made for dt-bindings and driver should be put into
> >>> separate patches.
> >>
> >> I actually thought about it but chose to have it in the same patch because I
> >> did not see any direct advantage to separating them.
> >>
> >> But I can do that.
> >> I will come up with a v3 with this change if no one thinks differently.
> >>
> > 
> > When looking at the git log, I'm not that convinced it should be
> > separate patches.
> > 
> > For example, I found a4f741e3e157c3a5c8aea5f2ea62b692fbf17338 that is
> > doing the exact same thing as this patch.
> > 
> > There is plenty of patches that mixes the code change and dt bindings
> > updates.
> > Could it not be useful to overview both the implementation and
> > dt-mapping change in one view?
> > 
> > If you or anyone else still think it should be separated, please let me know and I will
> > come up with a v3.
> > 
> 
> If we were talking about something new, specifically new and unapproved DT bindings,
> it should be separate patches. However, that is not the case here. The DT bindings
> are well established. Sure, we could be pedantic and request a split into two
> patches. However, the only benefit of that would be more work for the maintainers,
> ie Wim and myself (including me having to send this e-mail). I don't really see
> the point of that.
> 
> I have already sent my Reviewed-by:, and I don't intend to withdraw it.
> 
Hi, both

Sorry for that if I caused any inconvenience to you. I didn't really
insist on if the patch is needed to split into two, which totally
depends on whether dt maintainers like it.

The change for dt-binding is usually added as a split patch with
dt-bindings as a prefix. This way I thought dt maintainers is not
easy to miss those patches and also can give some useful feedback
for them.

	Sean

> Thanks,
> Guenter
>