Hello Russell,

On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 12:26:24 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 10:48:54AM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:

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Russell,

Do you have some input/feedback about the below proposals/questions?

Not at the moment, I'm busy sorting through the 150-odd months-old
patches which remain in my tree post-merge window, working through
regressions, and trying to sort them out so I can (re-)post them and
hopefully get rid of them.

Of course, if it didn't take many months to get patches into mainline,
then I wouldn't be doing this right now, and I could spend more time
thinking more about these sorts of issues, rather than (eg) thinking
about how to generate DT binding documentation for drivers which have
been merged without that required documentation, which I then need to
modify, and then promptly get asked to write that required documentation
for.

I surely understand that it sometimes takes a lot of time to get some
feedback from maintainers, I also had similar troubles with the
maintainers of certain subsystems.

However, I'd really like to see the hardware I/O coherency issue make
some progress: it's currently completely broken on Armada 370, causing
random corruptions, and the only solution is to be able to properly
enable write-allocate. Your patch series makes that partially possible,
but there are some remaining problems, which I summarized at
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2014-June/263524.html.

Thanks a lot for your help and suggestions,

Thomas
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Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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