On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 07:35:57AM -0700, John Linn wrote:

What is your suggestion to people with regards to patches that need the
update?

The only suggestion I can make is: don't wait until the last minute before
putting something into the machine registry, because you will get into
these kinds of problems.

If I do an update now, it'll be the second time it's happened in February.
It's likely it will need another update just before the merge window too
in 3-4 weeks time.

So really all that I can say is that people need to ensure that they get
stuff from the machine registry earlier rather than later.

I do think we're heading for a major problem with the mach-types file
becoming too big inspite of its brevity.  I think I may start marking
entries as 'inactive' and therefore omitted from the kernel's tree if
they don't appear in mainline within one year of being allocated (or
some similar rule.)

I'm open to suggestions, just trying to work with everyone the best way
to get Xilinx patches into the system.

The only thing I can think is to wait a couple more weeks and I'll see
about doing an update mid-March.  Maybe by then we can have a smaller
file...