On 5/22/20 11:36 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Matthias Brugger <matthias....@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 22 May 2020 23:31:50 +0200
>
>>
>>
>> On 22/05/2020 23:20, David Miller wrote:
>>> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <b...@bgdev.pl>
>>> Date: Fri, 22 May 2020 14:06:49 +0200
>>>
>>>> This series adds support for the STAR Ethernet Controller present on
>>>> MediaTeK
>>>> SoCs from the MT8* family.
>>>
>>> Series applied to net-next, thank you.
>>>
>>
>> If you say "series applied" do you mean you also applied the device tree
>> parts?
>> These should go through my branch, because there could be conflicts if there
>> are
>> other device tree patches from other series, not related with network,
>> touching
>> the same files.
>
> It's starting to get rediculous and tedious to manage the DT changes
> when they are tied to new networking drivers and such.
>
> And in any event, it is the patch series submitter's responsibility to
> sort these issues out, separate the patches based upon target tree, and
> clearly indicate this in the introductory posting and Subject lines.
>
My experience in with other subsystems is that the DTS changes which
enables de device are part of the series.
They are normally prefixed with "arm64: dts:" or "ARM: dts:" for 32 bit
SoCs. That also normally the way I detect patches which should through
my tree.
Anyway I'll try to remember submitters in the future to send DTS patches
for network devices as separate series. That makes my life a bit more
complicated as I afterwards have to find the related DTS series to the
driver you accepted, but I'll try.
Regards,
Matthias
