On Thursday, March 17, 2016 10:07:30 AM Timur Tabi wrote:

fu.wei at linaro.org wrote:

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From: Fu Wei <redacted>

This patchset:
     (1)Move some enums and marcos to header file for arm_arch_timer,
     improve the pr_* code by defining "pr_fmt(fmt)" in arm_arch_timer.c

     (2)Introduce ACPI GTDT parser: drivers/acpi/gtdt.c
     Parse all kinds of timer in GTDT table of ACPI:arch timer,
     memory-mapped timer and SBSA Generic Watchdog timer.
     This driver can help to simplify all the relevant timer drivers,
     and separate all the ACPI GTDT knowledge from them.

     (3)Simplify ACPI code for arch timer in arm_arch_timer.c

     (4)Add memory-mapped timer support in arm_arch_timer.c

The SBSA watchdog driver is already in watchdog-next and will be merged 
into 4.6.  These five patches are necessary for the watchdog driver to 
probe on an ACPI system.

I'm guessing since that v4 was posted in the middle of the 4.6 merge 
window, that these patches won't make it and we'll have to wait until 
4.7 (at the earliest)?

First off, the last version I've seen is the v3.  I must have overlooked
the v4 then, but I don't think it was CCed to linux-acpi (which should
have happened).

Second, these patches require review from multiple maintainers and (or including)
people who actually know how the GTDT is supposed to be used.  I haven't
seen any responses from any of them yet, so the answer to your question is
"yes".

I will have a couple of comments for patch [1/6] (in the v3), but it's
not been a priority due to the apparent overall lack of interest in this
series.

Thanks,
Rafael