linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/7] msm: io: I/O register definitions for MSM8960

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Date:	Sat, 25 Dec 2010 10:40:58 -0800
From:	David Brown <davidb@...eaurora.org>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Stepan Moskovchenko <stepanm@...eaurora.org>,
	linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] msm: io: I/O register definitions for MSM8960

Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> writes:

> On Friday 17 December 2010, David Brown wrote:

>> My question, then is, should we hold off on getting 8960 support into
>> the kernel until enough things are improved to get rid of the 8960
>> ifdefs?  We can certainly do it that way, but it will keep the code
>> out of the kernel longer.
>
> My personal recommendation would be to fix all the places that you
> can do without significant reworks of the existing code, and
> just add TODO comments in the other places, so we can find them
> easily. There is no reason to hold up merging the code too long for
> this, but I wouldn't add code now that I know needs to be changed
> soon to something that can already be done easily.

Sounds like a good plan.  I've already started going through the IO
mapping defines to make them not-ifdef based.  It's not that significant
of a change.  Of course, everyone is on break here who will be able to
test things, so we'll have this stuff early January.

Thanks,
David

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