linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/6] ARM: dove: Remove watchdog from DT

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Message-ID: <20120925103141.GG27099@lunn.ch>
Date:	Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:31:41 +0200
From:	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>
Cc:	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
	Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Gregory Clement <gregory.clement@...e-electrons.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] ARM: dove: Remove watchdog from DT

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 12:14:39PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Andrew Lunn,
> 
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 11:46:10 +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> 
> > I principle, i agree. However, i'm not too sure about mach-orion5x &
> > mach-mv78xx0. orion5x has probably been broken since -rc1 was released
> > and nobody noticed. In the same time, we got around 5 people
> > independently reporting kirkwood was broken. We have not received any
> > new boards for orion5x in the time i've been looking at Orion
> > platforms. mv78xx0 only has one board which is not a Marvell reference
> > design. So im tempted to not spend any effort moving orion5x or
> > mv78xx0 to DT unless these actually hinder the effort of moving the
> > others to DT.  What may make sense is to flatten mv78xx0 and orion5x
> > into plat-orion and then just watch the bit-rot happen.
> 
> I'll try to see if I can get people from LaCie to test mach-orion5x as
> I have a few contacts there, and I'll contact Marvell to see if they can
> still provide Orion-based platforms.

Marvell supplied my one one reference platform. So i can do some
testing that the basic infrastructure works.

But the problem with converting to DT is that there is a lot of
brainless monkey work needed per supported board, and its very easy to
make a typo. So each board converted to DT needs testing. I don't know
if we can find testers for all the boards. But should we throw out
working boards just because we cannot find somebody to test the DT
version?

	Andrew
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