46dcfc8 (ARM: Update mach-types) removes used machine types

Marek Vasut marek.vasut at gmail.com
Mon Aug 22 07:18:25 EDT 2011


On Monday, August 22, 2011 10:33:29 AM Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 09:17:49AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 10:10:00AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > > Hello Russell,
> > > 
> > > your commit 46dcfc8 that is in today's next among other changes does:
> > > 
> > > -eukrea_cpuimx25sd      MACH_EUKREA_CPUIMX25    EUKREA_CPUIMX25 2820
> > > -eukrea_cpuimx35sd      MACH_EUKREA_CPUIMX35    EUKREA_CPUIMX35 2821
> > > 
> > > These two are both marked as "mainlined" on
> > > http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/machines/ and both are actually
> > > used (arch/arm/mach-imx/mach-{eukrea_cpuimx25,cpuimx35.c})
> > > 
> > > Can you please add them back? Maybe it's worth to double-check the
> > > other deletions?!
> > 
> > No.  They're removed because they're broken (look at them) - I've added
> > additional checks so I don't have to waste _significant_ time fixing
> > the entries time and time again.
> > 
> > The requirement is that the machine_is_xxx() must match the MACH_xxx
> > parts.  If they don't, they will not exist in future updates.
> 
> Ah, I wasn't aware of that requirement.
> 
> Eric, these machine types are owned by you. Do you care to follow up?

Hi Russell,

maybe it'd be worth at least pinging the people before you kill off the machine 
so they can come up with fix?

Cheers
> 
> Best regards
> Uwe



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