[PATCH 00/14] Fix issues with ARMv6+v6k+v7 kernels

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 10:06:20PM +0530, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> Have tested this series on OMAP4430 and OMAP3430.
> Don't know if it helps to push some of these patches to be part
> of rc cycles. At least the SMP specific fixes should get merged
> otherwise, builds like omap2plus_defconfig won't be running
> right configuration on SMP machine.

It's _too_ _late_ in the rc cycle for a fix of this size.  As I've said
(several times) it was only possible for rc1.  That boat has been missed
as we're now on rc4.  We could see 2.6.38 in as little as two weeks time.

 27 files changed, 183 insertions(+), 197 deletions(-)

is too big.

There's still the outstanding question over:

  ARM: v6k: use CPU domain feature if we include support for arch < ARMv6K

which remains unsettled.

I think it's probably going to be better to _purposely_ break the OMAP
build when it covers v6 and v7 CPUs in these kernels as I don't think it's
sanely fixable given where we are.  Again, that's something I _did_ point
out at the time.

I really can't help it if there is a lack of co-operation from people to
get necessary fixes properly tested in a timely manner.