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Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 18:30:15 +0100
From: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
To: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] DONOTMERGE: dt-bindings: mfd: syscon: add TI's opp
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On Thu, 13 Jun 2024, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:

> On 13/06/2024 14:20, Conor Dooley wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 01:09:23PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> >> On Wed, 12 Jun 2024, Bryan Brattlof wrote:
> >>
> >>> On June 12, 2024 thus sayeth Conor Dooley:
> >>>> On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 11:41:52AM -0500, Bryan Brattlof wrote:
> >>>>> The JTAG_USER_ID_USERCODE efuse address, which is located inside the
> >>>>> WKUP_CTRL_MMR0 range holds information to identify the speed grades of
> >>>>> various components on TI's K3 SoCs. Add a compatible to allow the
> >>>>> cpufreq driver to obtain the data to limit the maximum frequency for the
> >>>>> CPUs under Linux control.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Signed-off-by: Bryan Brattlof <bb@ti.com>
> >>>>
> >>>> $subject: DONOTMERGE: dt-bindings: mfd: syscon: add TI's opp table compatible
> >>>>
> >>>> Okay, if this isn't for merging then I won't Ack it.
> >>>
> >>> Ha! Nice. If I don't hear anything from anyone else I'll send a v2 in a 
> >>> few hours.
> >>
> >> What's the point of all the DONOTMERGE nonsense?
> > 
> > AFAICT, TI live in fear of subsystem maintainers merging the dts patches,
> > so they do this.
> 
> And want some strict timeframe of merging bindings (via subsystem) and
> DTS (via SoC tree), which causes all weird submissions like this above
> or sending bindings without users.
> 
> So far I can live with it but if more such peculiarities come up, then
> sorry, fix your process/tools instead of putting burden on maintainers
> and community.

FWIW, if I see DONOTMERGE in the subject line, I tend to skip over them.

-- 
Lee Jones [李琼斯]