linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ARM: mx35: add cpufreq support

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Message-ID: <20120509081306.GK27341@pengutronix.de>
Date:	Wed, 9 May 2012 10:13:06 +0200
From:	Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>
To:	Christoph Fritz <chf.fritz@...glemail.com>
Cc:	Sascha Hauer <kernel@...gutronix.de>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Hans J. Koch" <hjk@...sjkoch.de>, Daniel Mack <daniel@...que.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: mx35: add cpufreq support

On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 09:56:18AM +0200, Christoph Fritz wrote:
> Hi Sascha,
> 
> On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 09:22:39AM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 04:14:37PM +0200, Christoph Fritz wrote:
> > > This patch adds the mx35 to the supported cpu-families of the
> > > "CPUfreq driver for i.MX CPUs".
> > 
> > I'm afraid this has to wait another cycle since you are patching a file
> > that is scheduled to be replaced with common clock framework support.
> 
> Has this "scheduled replacement" somewhere (e.g. calendar) been
> marked? So that I can check in the future before editing "scheduled
> files".

The clock framework conversion has been a hot topic for quite a while
now, but there hasn't been an official note about it outside the list.
I can understand that the occasional linux arm kernel reader is not
aware of it, but we currently have nothing in place to anounce such
things. (Other than feature-removal.txt which seems not very suitable
since no feature is removed, only updated)

Sascha


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