On Tuesday 18 September 2012, Matt Porter wrote:

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 08:43:55AM +0530, Vinod Koul wrote:

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Now would it make sense to NOT merge these changes for 3.7 and postpone
to 3.8. I can host these patches on a topic branch and merge them when
we are ready. I plan to spend some good amount of time on my work this
week so we should be ready pretty soon.
One these changes are merged, users can start moving to this scheme.

FWIW, I'm already basing the EDMA dmaengine support for OMAP (specifically
for AM335x) on using these helpers since AM335x only boots from DT.

I suspect the same thing will be happening for a lot of platforms
after 3.7-rc1: ux500, lpc32xx, integrator, imx, mxs and probably
others are all waiting for this so they can complete the move
to DT-only booting.

Having some support for the new binding in 3.7 would be a great
help to reduce interdependencies for the 3.8 merge cycle. Both the
driver interface and the binding should actually be in a good
shape now, so I'd very much appriciate it getting merged for 3.7,
even if the implementation may have to change again in 3.8.

	Arnd