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Date: Fri, 24 May 2024 18:19:50 +0100
From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
To: Nicolas Pitre <npitre@baylibre.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/6] Mediatek thermal sensor driver support for MT8186
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On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 01:04:38PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Fri, 24 May 2024, Julien Panis wrote:
> 
> > [RFC] When PATCH 1/6 and 2/6 are squashed, checkpatch raises this WARNING:
> > "DT binding docs and includes should be a separate patch." That's why I
> > split them in this v5. The problem is that the driver can't be compiled
> > any more at PATCH 1/6. It needs PATCH 2/6 to be compiled. Should the
> > checkpatch warning be ignored here ? Should I finally squash PATCH 1/6
> > and PATCH 2/6 ?
> 
> IMHO it might be preferable to preserve successful compilation across 
> bisection than to appeal to checkpatch in this case.

Or, patch 1 adds the new definitions, subsequent patches convert the
users, and the last patch removes the old, now unused, definitions.

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