On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 04:52:28PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

We discussed this in Budapest and basically agreed that we wouldn't stop
new board numbers and board files from being added until there is
enough infrastructure present to add new boards with the device tree
only. I would certainly not stop anyone from adding new boards in the
current merge window, or probably the next one.

Given my discussion with Linus over merging what's in my tree yesterday,
the indication is that Linus is _only_ going to take git trees which
remove code or "don't add tons of new lines", in other words only small
growth is acceptable.

Given that I don't see how new board files, which tend to be around the
thousand-line mark could be added, which rather makes updating mach-types
rather pointless.