[PATCH 00/10] hwspinlock-next

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Wed Sep 21 11:24:00 EDT 2011


* Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> [110921 07:27]:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 04:13:40PM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > * Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad at wizery.com> [110920 01:34]:
> > > On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad at wizery.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > I'm wondering how hwspinlock updates like this should go upstream.
> > > 
> > > The first hwspinlock batch was picked by Tony, because it involved a
> > > bulk of OMAP changes.
> > > 
> > > Hwspinlock isn't OMAP-specific anymore though (we gained support for
> > > STE's u8500) and the vast majority of changes are in drivers/. We're
> > > still very much ARM-related, though this may change too at some point
> > > (c6x has a similar "hardware semaphore" peripheral like the u8500
> > > does).
> > > 
> > > Tony, if you're still willing to pick up these updates I'd be happy to
> > > send you pull requests of course.
> > 
> > I'd prefer for Greg to take these as these are drivers.
> 
> What, am I the catch-all for drivers these days?
> 
> Oh, right, it looks like I am :)
> 
> > If he's not taking it at this point based on it being ARM only,
> > I can take it then.
> 
> Please do, I don't even have the ability to build them here, as I don't
> have an arm cross-compiler on this travel laptop.

OK so you're off the hook then :) Now we still need to sort out the
remaining options posted by Arnd.

Tony



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