linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 00/17] clocksource/arm_arch

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Message-ID: <2cf7b564-63c2-ac6c-a083-f7ac2caab6fc@linaro.org>
Date:   Sat, 16 Oct 2021 23:59:33 +0200
From:   Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
To:     Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Peter Shier <pshier@...gle.com>,
        Raghavendra Rao Ananta <rananta@...gle.com>,
        Ricardo Koller <ricarkol@...gle.com>,
        Oliver Upton <oupton@...gle.com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        kernel-team@...roid.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/17] clocksource/arm_arch_timer: Add basic ARMv8.6
 support


Hi Marc,


On 11/10/2021 15:39, Marc Zyngier wrote:

[ ... ]

> Thanks for that. All addressed now. I'll repost the series once we've
> addressed the question below.
> 
>> How do you want to merge this series? It would be nice to have the arch
>> bits in the arm64 tree, if possible, as we'll be tripping over the cpucaps
>> stuff otherwise.
> 
> I think we should keep the series together, as asm/arch_timer.h gets a
> beating all over the place, and there is no chance the arm64 bits at
> the end can apply (let alone work) on their own.
> 
> So either Daniel would ack the series for it to go via arm64, or
> create a stable branch with the first 13 patches that would go in both
> the clocksource and arm64 trees.
> 
> Daniel, any preference?

yes, I prefer a stable branch for this series.

https://git.linaro.org/people/daniel.lezcano/linux.git/log/?h=timers/drivers/armv8.6_arch_timer


Thanks


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