linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 0/2] J-Core timer support

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1610201955230.4938@nanos>
Date:   Thu, 20 Oct 2016 19:56:09 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
cc:     Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-sh@...r.kernel.org, Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 0/2] J-Core timer support

Daniel,

On Thu, 20 Oct 2016, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 09:32:40AM +0200, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> > Unfortunately it won't happen. v4.9-rc1 is already out. The driver will be
> > in v4.10.
> > 
> > If you wanted patches merged for v4.9, they should have been merged in the
> > downstream tree before v4.8-rc5, so they hit the upstream tree for v4.9's merge
> > window.
> 
> I've been trying to get what's essentially the same patch merged since
> before the 4.8 merge window. I would be more understanding if this
> were something new that's not upstream, but broken support for the
> hardware (that, from a user perspective, is a bug, since they can
> select the target but then it doesn't boot) has already been in one
> release due to missing core drivers, and the irq patches have already
> been merged in this release (post-rc1 even).

It's hardware enablement and not a new feature, so it's fine to merge it
now. I'll pick it up later tonight.

Thanks,

	tglx