[GIT PULL] mx5 merge

Sascha Hauer s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Thu Nov 24 02:27:29 EST 2011


Hi Arnd,

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 09:15:45PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 November 2011, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > Please pull the following branch which merges the mx5 architecture into
> > mach-imx. As said before, I'd love to get this into this -rc cycle
> > because we would get unnecessary merge conflicts later. Anyway, if you
> > think that this is a really bad idea please pull it for next.
> > 
> > Sascha
> > 
> > The following changes since commit 1ea6b8f48918282bdca0b32a34095504ee65bab5:
> > 
> >   Linux 3.2-rc1 (2011-11-07 16:16:02 -0800)
> > 
> > are available in the git repository at:
> >   git://git.pengutronix.de/git/imx/linux-2.6.git mx5-merge
> 
> Hi Sascha,
> 
> I've pulled it into the imx/move branch, to be merged through the next/move
> branch in arm-soc now.
> 
> Sorry for not replying earlier. I think the best plan is to do it at the
> end of a merge window, but I didn't feel comfortable at the end of the
> 3.2-rc1 because I had not seen the patches before.
> 
> Since almost all the files are trivially moved, I think we can best avoid
> all merge conflicts by applying the move changeset last after all other
> changes to mx5 code have gone in. I'll gladly take care of regenerating
> the patch before I send it (and letting you double-check the result).
> 
> However, what I'd like you to do is minimize the changes that don't
> just move entire files around by submitting them as a cleanup branch
> that I can apply *before* all other patches. I think we should have
> separate patches for these changes:
> 
> * merge mach-mx5/system.c into pm-imx5.c
> * merge arch/arm/mach-mx5/Kconfig into arch/arm/mach-imx/Kconfig
> * ARM i.MX5: remove unnecessary includes from board files
> 
> If we do these early, the remaining move will be even more trivial
> than the current series.

Ok, sounds like a plan

Thanks
 Sascha

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