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From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date:   Mon, 23 Apr 2018 09:45:07 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] arm: renesas: Change platform dependency to ARCH_RENESAS
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Hi Mark,

On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 6:48 PM, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 03:28:26PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> The first 6 patches can be applied independently by subsystem
>> maintainers.
>> The last two patches depend on the first 6 patches, and are thus marked
>> RFC.
>
> Would it not make sense to try to apply everything en masse rather than
> delaying?  I'm happy to apply the subsystem stuff but if it gets things
> done quicker or more efficiently I'm also happy to have the lot merged
> as one series.

In theory, yes.

However, this touches multiple subsystems, and it's non-critical, so I don't
want to spent the energy to get this done in a synchronized way.
It's way easier to postpone the last (RFC) patches when everything else
has been applied by subsystem maintainers.

So please apply your part, thanks!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

-- 
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
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