patch "misc/at25, dt: Improve at25 SPI eeprom device tree bindings." added to char-misc tree

Greg KH gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Thu Sep 6 09:34:20 EST 2012


On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 02:33:58PM -0700, David Daney wrote:
> On 09/05/2012 02:10 PM, gregkh at linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> >
> >This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> >
> >     misc/at25, dt: Improve at25 SPI eeprom device tree bindings.
> 
> It is perhaps obvious that I think the patch should be merged (as I
> wrote it and sent it to you).  However, I think there is a bit of
> process problem here.  Patches that affect device tree bindings are
> part of the de facto kernel ABI, and as such, need proper vetting.
> It is my opinion that neither the original patch, nor this one
> correcting it, should have been committed without either Grant or
> Rob giving an Acked-by.

Then next time, please do a RFC or something that indicates that I
shouldn't be applying a patch without such an Ack.

If you want, I will gladly revert this :)

greg k-h


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