On Monday 27 June 2011, Nori, Sekhar wrote:

On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 23:18:19, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

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On Friday 24 June 2011, Nori, Sekhar wrote:
Please make sure the patches apply on top of 2.6.39 and resubmit
them, separating out the first cleanup patch from the others.

Is it 2.6.39 or v3.0-rc? Linux-next is currently at v3.0-rc4.

If there are no conflicts with 3.0-rc changes, submitting
based on the previous release (2.6.39) is ok, otherwise just
pick the most recent -rc release. Best avoid basing on top
of an arbitrary commit between two -rc though.

I can create a branch with just the clean-up stuff and
another branch with the features (and its dependencies
from fixes/clean-up).

By "resubmit" I assume you are not asking for a re-send
of the patches to the mailing list (I can do that if you
want).

I'd prefer submission in form of a git-pull request in this
case, but sending to the mailing list is ok, too.

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In case of the SATA support, the feature is relatively small
and requires little board-specific code, which is good.
However, if you are planning to push a lot of small additions
like this, I would expect you spend much more effort on
consolidation within davinci and migration towards device
tree probing first.

I don't see new SoCs/boards getting added to the DaVinci
tree in the near term but there are some features of existing
platforms (like USB on DM365 or SATA on DA850) which are missing
in mainline for which there are patches being sent. 

To my knowledge, there isn't any ongoing work on moving DaVinci
to device tree. I am working on getting the low(er) hanging things
like GPIO movement to drivers/gpio done. DaVinci will eventually
move to device-tree, but may be not as soon as OMAP where
there is a lot more active work ongoing.

Yes, makes sense since you are working on both.

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What else do you have pending for davinci in 3.1? Can you
send pull requests for cleanups/fixes/device-tree/features?

Actually not quite a lot at the moment, but there are some
patches which are waiting for acks/dependencies and some
pending re-work.

I will send a pull request with what has been reviewed and
accepted already.

Ok. Do you also have a public tree with all the patches that
you would hope to get merged eventually? I'd just like to
get an impression of what's to come.

I guess I also need to ask Stephen Rothwell to remove the
DaVinci next branch from the list of branches he is merging
for linux-next.

Yes, that would be good, but we might need to do that in a
more coordinated way for all the ARM platforms once they
are reasonably merged into my tree.

	Arnd