[RFC PATCH 01/10] PCMCIA: soc_common: convert to a stand alone module

[Dominik Brodowski]

Russell,

On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 10:28:16AM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 10:56:33AM +0100, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> > Russell,
> > 
> > On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 05:24:17PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > > For the time being, I'll merge your patch into my git tree, but unless
> > > Dominik hands my patches back to me for merging, it will be lost.
> > 
> > your patches -- which you asked me to merge and push upstream -- are on
> > their way to Linus. I'll merge this bugfix to your patch later and push it
> > upstream, too, unless you prefer to do that independently.
> 
> Yes I did at the time, but things change.  Since you've been totally silent
> on the merge conflicts between your PCMCIA tree and my tree which SFR
> reported on December 1st:

Well, as this was an addition through your tree, I didn't consider it
neccessary to comment on it.

> | Hi Dominik,
> | 
> | Today's linux-next merge of the pcmcia tree got a conflict in
> | drivers/pcmcia/sa1100_h3600.c between commit
> | 6ce8f65e71f0d80ee23b543be09789dd865a99be ("ARM: 5811/1: pcmcia: convert
> | sa1100_h3600 driver to gpiolib") from the arm tree and commit
> | 66024db57d5b9011e274b314affad68f370c0d6f ("PCMCIA: stop duplicating
> | pci_irq in soc_pcmcia_socket") from the pcmcia tree.
> | 
> | I fixed it up (see below) and can carry the fix as necessary.  Please
> | check the fix below.
> ...
> 
> To which there was this reply:
> | Fix looks good to me, and testing next-20091201 on real device (h3600)
> | shows no problems with pcmcia.
> | 
> | Perhaps this merge conflict can be avoided by merging Russell's PCMCIA
> | patches through arm tree. But, anyway, it's Russell and Dominik
> | to decide.
> 
> And a reply from me agreeing that it would probably make more sense in
> light of this for my patches to go through my tree.

Well, another option would have been to merge the other changes to
drivers/pcmcia/ via PCMCIA -- something which has not even been suggested.
More and more I think some if not all PCMCIA socket drivers should reside in
subdirectories to drivers/pcmcia/ .

> This is no longer possible, so I'm going to kick out the conflicting code
> for the time being.  The conflicting stuff can be merged at some later
> date once this kind of issue is solved.

That's one option, yes.

Best,
	Dominik