[PATCH v2 2/2] ARM: Enable TS-78XX features in unknown revisions

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Sat, 5 Mar 2011, Alexander Clouter wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> In gmane.linux.kernel Michael Spang <mspang at csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> >
> > When the manufacturer increases the revision number the platform
> > devices for the RTC, NAND, and RNG disappear. We should assume
> > new revisions have these devices instead of assuming they do not.
> >
> NACK
> 
> This would break things for anyone running a custom FPGA bitstream (and 
> they are out there) .  The RTC and RNG are possibly the only things that 
> are able to be implemented in a custom FPGA, the NAND is wholly TS 
> specific..
> 
> Please could you refrain submitting patches for TS-7800 without having 
> a quick look at:
>  * http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/nico/orion.git
>  * http://www.digriz.org.uk/ts78xx/kernel
> 
> The former is pretty much what you have to base all your patches on so 
> you should be tracking it (which would have solved the re-inventing the 
> revision update patch), whilst the latter would help tell you things 
> that have already been done elsewhere.
> 
> The latter site also includes thoughts on where the platform code is 
> going.  So far as *zero* people have ever provided feedback or thoughts 
> (unfortunately they seem too busy just bluntly hammering things in the 
> ts7000 forum) I have so far to date only done things that I feel are 
> most appropriate.  This includes things like the doorbell code necessary 
> to get IRQ's firing from the PC/104 bus...which I hope no-one is wasting 
> their time re-implementing?
> 
> This is not a case of megalomania, it's a case of saving wasted effort, 
> testing patches and getting obtaining code review.

May I ask you to create a patch adding an entry specificly for TS-7800 
to the MAINTAINERS file in the top directory, something like:

Technologic Systems TS-78xx platform support
M:	Alexander Clouter <alex at digriz.org.uk>
W:	http://www.digriz.org.uk/ts78xx/kernel
S:	Maintained
F:	arch/arm/mach-orion5x/ts78xx-*


Nicolas