When does mach-types get updated in a tree?

[John Linn]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Russell King - ARM Linux [mailto:linux at arm.linux.org.uk]
> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 8:11 AM
> To: John Linn
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org; grant.likely at secretlab.ca
> Subject: Re: When does mach-types get updated in a tree?
> 
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 07:35:57AM -0700, John Linn wrote:
> > What is your suggestion to people with regards to patches that need
the
> > update?
> 
> The only suggestion I can make is: don't wait until the last minute
before
> putting something into the machine registry, because you will get into
> these kinds of problems.

Yes agreed. My fault, lesson learned.

> 
> If I do an update now, it'll be the second time it's happened in
February.
> It's likely it will need another update just before the merge window
too
> in 3-4 weeks time.
> 
> So really all that I can say is that people need to ensure that they
get
> stuff from the machine registry earlier rather than later.
> 
> I do think we're heading for a major problem with the mach-types file
> becoming too big inspite of its brevity.  I think I may start marking
> entries as 'inactive' and therefore omitted from the kernel's tree if
> they don't appear in mainline within one year of being allocated (or
> some similar rule.)
> 

Wouldn't device tree help with this problem?

> > I'm open to suggestions, just trying to work with everyone the best
way
> > to get Xilinx patches into the system.
> 
> The only thing I can think is to wait a couple more weeks and I'll see
> about doing an update mid-March.  Maybe by then we can have a smaller
> file...

Ok, thanks.

-- John


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