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From: Russell King - ARM Linux [mailto:linux at arm.linux.org.uk]
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 8:11 AM
To: John Linn
Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org; grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Subject: Re: When does mach-types get updated in a tree?

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

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What is your suggestion to people with regards to patches that need

the

quoted

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.)

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I'm open to suggestions, just trying to work with everyone the best

way

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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...

Hi Russell,

Any chance you'll be able to do the update of mach-types for the merge?

Thanks,
John


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