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Message-ID: <CAD3Xx4JJ+RPEiE7kJF0qV8qp-hvz1kcZeR4rNaZA=7s9x0RrAw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 28 Apr 2015 18:49:10 +0200
From:	Valentin Rothberg <valentinrothberg@...il.com>
To:	Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@...e-electrons.com>
Cc:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>, jason@...edaemon.net,
	andrew@...n.ch, sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com,
	linux@....linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arch/arm/mach-mvebu/Kconfig: remove obsolete selects

Hi Gregory,

thanks for your reply.

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 6:41 PM, Gregory CLEMENT
<gregory.clement@...e-electrons.com> wrote:
> Hi Valentin,
>
> On 28/04/2015 18:02, Valentin Rothberg wrote:
>> ARM_ERRATA_753970 is not defined in Kconfig, so that both selects turn
>> out to be nops.  Hence, we can safely remove them.
>
> It was already pointed by Paul Bolle a few months ago:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1868817
>
> and I thought it was applied.
>
> He pointed that the original intent was to select
> PL310_ERRATA_753970. Initially I was not sure if we needed it. In the
> meantime I didn't get any answer from the hardware designers but this
> errata affects the r3p0 version and according to the Cache ID register
> the PL310 used on these two SoCs were the r3p3.

I should have checked my mails before (Paul put me in the CC for this patch).

Kind regards,
 Valentin

> At the end I don't know which one of the patches to apply...
>
> But in any case I will add
> Acked-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@...e-electrons.com>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gregory
>
>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Valentin Rothberg <valentinrothberg@...il.com>
>> ---
>> I detected this issue with scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py
>> ---
>>  arch/arm/mach-mvebu/Kconfig | 2 --
>>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-mvebu/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mach-mvebu/Kconfig
>> index 97473168d6b6..b9f1b63b169c 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/mach-mvebu/Kconfig
>> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-mvebu/Kconfig
>> @@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ config MACH_ARMADA_370
>>  config MACH_ARMADA_375
>>       bool "Marvell Armada 375 boards" if ARCH_MULTI_V7
>>       select ARM_ERRATA_720789
>> -     select ARM_ERRATA_753970
>>       select ARM_GIC
>>       select ARMADA_375_CLK
>>       select HAVE_ARM_SCU
>> @@ -52,7 +51,6 @@ config MACH_ARMADA_375
>>  config MACH_ARMADA_38X
>>       bool "Marvell Armada 380/385 boards" if ARCH_MULTI_V7
>>       select ARM_ERRATA_720789
>> -     select ARM_ERRATA_753970
>>       select ARM_GIC
>>       select ARMADA_38X_CLK
>>       select HAVE_ARM_SCU
>>
>
>
> --
> Gregory Clement, Free Electrons
> Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
> development, consulting, training and support.
> http://free-electrons.com
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