rmk back but still recovering (was Re: Reminder - rmk still on vacation)

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 09:40:27AM +0200, Shilimkar, Santosh wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 7:51 AM, S, Venkatraman <svenkatr at ti.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Shilimkar, Santosh
> > <santosh.shilimkar at ti.com> wrote:
> >> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
> >> <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> >>> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 06:08:13PM +0200, Shilimkar, Santosh wrote:
> >>>> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
> >>>> <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> >>>> > On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 03:12:22PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> >>>> >> Just a quick reminder that I'm still on holiday, and at this point there
> >>>> >> are over 2500 messages from the mailing lists which are sitting unread
> >>>> >> since I left the UK.  As I mentioned before I left the UK, it is my
> >>>> >> intention *not* to go back and read all those outstanding messages -
> >>>> >> there's too many of them to do that.
> >>>> >>
> >>>> >> So, if you want me to react to any email message you've sent, you'd
> >>>> >> *better* send it again next week unless I've already responded.
> >>>> >>
> >>>> >> Meanwhile, I see v3.5 has been released; I have a couple of things I
> >>>> >> need to do with my tree before I can push the changes, and I'll
> >>>> >> probably see about sorting those out over the weekend.  I also see
> >>>> >> that 14 new patches have landed in the patch system.
> >>>> >>
> >>>> >> However, the timing of my holiday vs the merge window means that I
> >>>> >> can't take anything new, unless they're fixes, so don't be surprised
> >>>> >> if some stuff gets missed this merge window.
> >>>> >
> >>>> > Right.  I'm not fully recovered from the jet lag (I'm still rather tired
> >>>> > - I hate travelling back from the North American continent because it
> >>>> > takes days to recover.)
> >>>> >
> >>>> > I have now archived off *all* email sent to me during July - which means
> >>>> > that I will *NOT* be responding to anything sent during the last 17 days.
> >>>> > If anyone has sent me anything important, it *MUST* be resent now.
> >>>> >
> >>>> > I am aware of an issue concerning the OMAP DMA patches.  I'm not sure
> >>>> > exactly what is required there, so I've dropped them from my planned pull
> >>>> > request in the interests of getting everything else I have to Linus.  I
> >>>> > may plan to send a pull request this evening.
> >>>> >
> >>>> Well the only pending discussion was enabling the CONFIG option for
> >>>> DMA at driver level SOC config level. Not sure if there was anything else
> >>>> on this really.
> >>>
> >>> Why?  The DMA driver itself is optional.
> >> That was Tony's point too. Unfortunately MMC and SPI driver don't work
> >> today without DMA. Some works needs to be done to support polling
> >> mode and am bit skeptical if it is really worth it. Same case be with other
> >> SDMA supported drivers mostly.
> >>
> > Russell, Tony,
> >   Can I request to include the DMA & MMC changes into this merge window ?
> > We have many cleanups and new patches waiting to be queued up for next (3.7)
> > merge window, and it'd be easier if they are implemented on top of the
> > DMA changes,
> > so that it gets tested together, and don't create merge conflicts.
> >   I am looking into implementing polling mode, which might take some time.
> 
> Thanks Venkat. For the SPI driver as well I heard from Shubro (in cc) that
> he is looking into polling mode.
> 
> IMHO, we should merge the OMAP DMA engine support which is now sufficiently
> tested and has been in linux-next for some time. Polling mode and ASOC
> related issues can be then debugged directly on mainline.
> For the time being, the SOC patch which Tony merged in linux-omap
> master can be included along with rest of the OMAP DMA engine patches
> to have working kernel.

So I take that as you wanting exactly what is in linux-next merged without
any further changes?