Re: [PATCH 0/2] phy: hdmi: Add FRL TxFFE level control

[Vladimir Oltean]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2026 at 01:56:32AM +0300, Cristian Ciocaltea wrote:
> On 3/30/26 11:57 AM, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 28, 2026 at 03:54:53PM +0200, Cristian Ciocaltea wrote:
> >> ---
> >> base-commit: f7b64ed948718290209074a50bb0df17e5944873
> >> change-id: 20260328-hdptx-ffe-a89c51e66904
> >> prerequisite-change-id: 20260227-hdptx-clk-fixes-47426632f862:v1
> >> prerequisite-patch-id: 5c1d442fae39103bb758f54738aff33d2491401d
> >> prerequisite-patch-id: b86f30292308345387d2a6b50949ad040b931592
> >> prerequisite-patch-id: b1335105db9177cb10c64ed1bf0867832e6aac2f
> >> prerequisite-patch-id: 83db6603d13e19f239e89fde2b26366eb0106b7e
> >> prerequisite-patch-id: b534395ad315811861f11859a3946f65c90c631a
> >> prerequisite-patch-id: f9637e57c902f35218cda658397416f84f7285cb
> > 
> > Sorry for my ignorance; who is supposed to act upon this git-format-patch
> > base tree information and in what way?
> > 
> > As things stand today, the build infrastructure we have in place will
> > not be able to apply and test your series unless it applies directly
> > onto the linux-phy/next branch.
> 
> Oh, I assumed that since b4 makes managing series dependencies straightforward
> on the preparation/submission side, there would be similar tooling support on
> the build/integration side as well.

Sorry to disappoint - linux-phy doesn't use b4 to build-test patches. It
gets them from Patchwork directly (as you'd get by clicking the 'diff' button),
then figures out whether to apply to the next or to the fixes branch
using the git-format-patch --subject-prefix string ('phy-next' or 'phy-fixes'),
then posts the checks back to Patchwork.

I can somehow imagine why no one rushed to improve this. While sometimes
somewhat useful, I can see the risk of such feature getting abused to
create a giant cobweb of dependencies that is suddenly no longer the
developer's problem, but passed on to somebody else.

In the future, please submit as RFC the patch sets that you know don't
directly apply, and mention that you're only posting them for early
feedback.