linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] at91: fixes for 3.19 #1 (bis)

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Date:	Mon, 12 Jan 2015 16:08:14 +0100
From:	Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...el.com>
To:	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>
CC:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, <arm@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...e-electrons.com>,
	Boris BREZILLON <boris.brezillon@...e-electrons.com>,
	Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@...osoft.com>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	"Ludovic Desroches" <ludovic.desroches@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] at91: fixes for 3.19 #1 (bis)

Le 11/01/2015 22:12, Olof Johansson a écrit :
> On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 10:02:50AM +0100, Nicolas Ferre wrote:
>> Le 08/01/2015 23:41, Olof Johansson a écrit :
>>> On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 12:14:37PM +0100, Nicolas Ferre wrote:
>>>> Arnd, Olof, Kevin,
>>>>
>>>> This is the rebase of my previous pull-request on top of 3.19-rc1. As said at
>>>> the time of my early messages, I was waiting for the arm-soc *and* pinctrl
>>>> material to reach Linus T.'s tree before sending this pull-request. In fact
>>>> this sequence was needed for the gpio header removal. The little patch about
>>>> #include deletion just follows an earlier merge conflict in arm-soc tree: I was
>>>> also waiting for this moment before sending the definitive fix, just to be
>>>> sure.
>>>>
>>>> In comparison with the previous pull-request, I also added a tiny correction of
>>>> the sama5d4.dtsi timer entry. All the rest is pretty straightforward.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, best regards,
>>>>
>>>> The following changes since commit 97bf6af1f928216fd6c5a66e8a57bfa95a659672:
>>>>
>>>>   Linux 3.19-rc1 (2014-12-20 17:08:50 -0800)
>>>>
>>>> are available in the git repository at:
>>>>
>>>>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nferre/linux-at91.git tags/at91-fixes
>>>>
>>>> for you to fetch changes up to 0e049c66ebf56a415cadd6c593b7ee0a2cb9d19d:
>>>>
>>>>   ARM: at91/dt: sama5d4: fix the timer reg length (2015-01-05 11:07:14 +0100)
>>>>
>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> First fixes batch for AT91 on 3.19 folowing The big cleanup:
>>>> - removal of unused Kconfig RTC options
>>>> - GPIO header file is now in same directory as the pinctrl driver
>>>> - little fix on #includes
>>>> - removal of DEBUG_LL from the sama5 common defconfig
>>>> - little fix of reg size in sama5d4.dtsi
>>>>
>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> Bo Shen (1):
>>>>       ARM: at91/dt: sama5d4: fix the timer reg length
>>>
>>> This is the only fix among these patches, isn't it? The others seem to
>>> be code removals/cleanups better targeted for 3.20, as far as I can tell.
>>
>> Well, this is why I sent the first version of this pull-request very
>> early in the process. I didn't have the possibility to re-send it
>> earlier on top of -rc1 until this pull-request.
>>
>> For me, the remaining of a dead Kconfig option, some issues with
>> DEGUG_LL and to a lesser extend the remaining of dead code are worth
>> cleaning now. I do have more cleanup patches to come in 3.20, but
>> waiting more for this simple material to be included is IMHO not
>> necessary...
>>
>> I may have some more fixes remaining for 3.19 and will be cautious about
>> their nature.
> 
> I'm a bit confused -- I said this branch isn't actually a fixes branch so we
> can't merge it for 3.19, but there is _one_ patch from it that looks like it
> should go in.
> 
> It's not really about whether the material is simple or not -- all maintainers
> need to keep focus on only sending up fixes during the -rc series. Sometimes we
> pick up a cleanup or two for -rc2 or so, but the time for that for 3.19 is past
> us.
> 
> Since you mention that you have more fixes coming (why hold off on them?), do
> you want me to cherry-pick over that one fix to our fixes branch, or can you
> queue it with the other fixes when you send them up?

Fair enough, I build a new "at91: fixes for 3.19 #1 (ter)" with tree
more patches right now.

Thanks, bye.
-- 
Nicolas Ferre

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