07:57 <mwalle> lag: regarding my voltage regulator series, the offending commit is https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/regulator.git/commit/?id=c266209eaef4fef863363557817f7d6a68314321 so i'll get a merge conflict later. how will that work? will you provide an immutable tag which can already be merged into broonie 's tree?

08:45 <mwalle> lag: would it be possibe that you'll just merge the dt and mfd patch and provide an immutable tag for the other subsystems to pull?

08:48 <lag> mwalle: Yes, I can do that

08:49 <lag> mwalle: What do you mean by "dt"?

10:39 <mwalle> lag: ah sorry, i've noticed that i accidentally missed the dt binding patch in v2 (which was already acked in v1). I'll respin a v3 anyway. Should I post the series with all patches or just the mfd (and dt patch) then?

10:52 <lag> mwalle: Post them all and I'll cherry-pick the MFD / DT ones

11:11 <mwalle> lag: thx will do

11:34 <broonie> mwalle: Probably the easiest thing is a tag with the MFD bits and then I can apply the regulator patches?

11:47 <mwalle> broonie: yep, that's the plan

11:49 <mwalle> btw does anyone knows the difference between the bus modalias and the uevent MODALIAS variable regarding automatic module loading. It seems that for the (relatively) new nvmem layouts bus there is no modalias. I've added the MODALIAS variable to the uevent and module loading now works, but I wonder when the modalias sysfs file is used, or whether it is used at all

11:52 <javierm> mwalle: AFAIK for module autoloading the modalias info in the .ko and the uevent modalias are the important bits. The sysfs is mostly for information

11:54 <javierm> mwalle: that is, there could be that a DEVICE_ATTR_RO(modalias) and modalias_show() callback isn't present, but will work as long as there's a struct bus_type .uevent defined

11:55 <javierm> and a MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() defined for the driver of course

11:57 <mwalle> javierm: ok thanks

11:59 <javierm> mwalle: I might be wrong though, but that's my understanding of how it works :)

12:21 <broonie> The sysfs is for bootsrapping isn't it?

12:24 <javierm> broonie: what do you mean by bootstrapping in this context ?

12:25 <broonie> During startup.

12:25 <javierm> broonie: hmm, good question. I don't know tbh