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From:   Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH V7 10/10] ARM64: dts: imx7ulp: update usb compatible
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On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 10:10:58AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 06, 2023 at 09:40:13AM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 06, 2023 at 01:18:43AM +0000, Peng Fan wrote:
> > > Hi Shawn,
> > > 
> > > > Subject: Re: [PATCH V7 10/10] ARM64: dts: imx7ulp: update usb compatible
> > > > 
> > > > On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 01:25:04PM +0800, Peng Fan (OSS) wrote:
> > > > > From: Peng Fan <peng.fan@nxp.com>
> > > > >
> > > > > Per binding doc, update the compatible
> > > > >
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan@nxp.com>
> > > > 
> > > > ARM: dts: imx7ulp: ...
> > > > 
> > > > Fixed it up and applied all DTS patches.
> > > [Peng Fan] 
> > > 
> > > Thanks for the fix. But I think Greg already applied the patchset.
> > 
> > Okay, I will drop them from my tree, but ...
> > 
> > Greg,
> > 
> > May I suggest a couple of things on the future process?
> > 
> > - Could you leave i.MX DTS patches to me, so that we can avoid potential
> >   merge conflicts?
> 
> How am I supposed to know this?

Aren't we using patch prefix to tell the target subsystem?

> Our tools take the whole patch series,
> not individual ones.  If someone wants patches to go through different
> trees, then they need to submit them as different patch series,
> otherwise it makes no sense.

It's a quite common practice that people send a series containing
multiple patches targeting different subsystems, as that's what
reviewers have been asking for sake of completeness.  So we are asking
for two opposite things from what I can see.

Shawn