Re: [RFC v4 00/25] Re-use nvram module

[Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>]

On Mon, 13 Jul 2015, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> 
> How are we gonna merge this?

I think the series would have to be merged almost whole. For the most 
part, no maintainer can merge any of this without ACKs from others:

- to improve code re-use by replacing an API shared by arch-specific code 
  and a variety of drivers means getting ACKs from everyone concerned (or 
  the old API can't be removed).

- to move arch-specific code out of a generic driver means getting ACKs 
  from both arch maintainer and driver maintainer. Some of this 
  arch-specific code is shared by m68k, x86 and arm (but not powerpc) and 
  this complicates things.

- to adopt a new Kconfig convention in a uniform and consistent way seems 
  to require simultaneous changes in various drivers and architectures.

> Have you looked into the dependencies?

What I saw was not pretty.

> Are there (large) parts we can merge in parallel?

Not AFAICT. Two patches could be cherry picked, that might make sense to 
merge by themselves. Those are patches 2 and 12. Either or both could be 
reviewed and merged by the char device maintainers.

There are a couple of other small patches that could probably be cherry 
picked without breaking anything but these changes are not justified 
except by subsequent patches.

> 
> Thanks again!

No worries.

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> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
>                         Geert
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