[GIT PULL] DEBUG_LL platform updates for 3.2

Ryan Mallon rmallon at gmail.com
Thu Oct 13 19:40:10 EDT 2011


On 14/10/11 10:09, Ryan Mallon wrote:

> On 14/10/11 00:39, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 13 Oct 2011, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:30:11AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>>> On Tuesday 11 October 2011 20:03:38 Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, 11 Oct 2011, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I've stuck them into the arm-soc tree for now, so we get linux-next
>>>>>> coverage, but I won't send them to Linus this way because then we
>>>>>> would get the same commits twice in the history.
>>>>>
>>>>> Could you please do the same with the following:
>>>>>
>>>>>   git://git.linaro.org/people/nico/linux.git mach_memory_h
>>>>>
>>>>> Russell pulled it at some point, and dropped it due to concerns about 
>>>>> repeated conflict resolutions (or so I presume).  I just did a test 
>>>>> merge between your for-next branch and the above and that looked trivial 
>>>>> enough.
>>>>
>>>> Ok, done.
>>>
>>> Bypassing maintainers stinks - especially when there are unaddressed
>>> comments outstanding.  Nicolas has "simplified" my objections in this
>>> request for you to pull - and has completely ignored the problem that
>>> it breaks ZBOOT_ROM by deleting the zreladdr definitions on EP93xx
>>> with no way for that to be provided.
>>
>> I also told you that EP93xx doesn't use ZBOOT_ROM anywhere, and that 
>> this was approved by the EP93xx maintainers.
> 
> 
> As the less active of the two EP93xx maintainers I didn't agree to this.
> I don't know if Hartley did, but I can't find anything from him in a
> quick search of the list. I have Cc'ed him.
> 
> I don't have time to follow this issue in depth, but from my vague
> understanding ZBOOT_ROM is unlikely to be used on EP93xx, but still
> _possible_ to use. Therefore we should not be removing support for
> ZBOOT_ROM on EP93xx in case there are some users out there.

Also, I am on holiday for the next two weeks, so may not be contactable
via email. Just wanted to point out that I had not been aware of this issue.

~Ryan





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