Re: [PATCH 2.6.16-mm1 3/3] rtc: add support for m41t81 & m41t85 chips to m41t00 driver

["Mark A. Greer" <mgreer@mvista.com>]

On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 02:21:14PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi Mark, Andrew,
> 
> > Mark A. Greer wrote:
> > >
> > > Resend...
> > > ---
> > > 
> > >  drivers/i2c/chips/m41t00.c |  294 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
> > >  include/linux/m41t00.h     |   50 +++++++
> > 
> 
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Not sure what to make of this.  It has no changelog,

Oops.  My bad.

> > it doesn't apply on
> > top of your previous three patches:
> > 
> > rtc-m41t00-driver-should-use-workqueue-instead-of-tasklet.patch
> > rtc-m41t00-driver-cleanup.patch
> > rtc-add-support-for-m41t81-m41t85-chips-to-m41t00-driver.patch
> > 
> > and it doesn't apply when used to replace
> > rtc-add-support-for-m41t81-m41t85-chips-to-m41t00-driver.patch.
> 
> Replacing works for me, after also replacing the two first patches of
> the series with their new respective version. As for the changelog I
> picked the one from the original third patch.

Sorry for the confusion, Andrew.  The 3 patches I sent were all
replacement patches for the previous 3 patches.

> > An incremental patch against the three above patches would be ideal...

I would have done that but there wasn't a 2.6.16-mm2 patch yesterday
(that I see is there now) so I had nothing to diff against.

<snip>

> Mark, is it OK if this third patch adding the m41t81 and m41t85 support
> spends some time in Andrew's tree and only goes in mainline for 2.6.18,
> or do you need it in 2.6.17?

No, waiting is fine, Jean.

Thanks guys.

Mark
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