[GIT PULL] Renesas ARM-based platforms updates for v3.5

Rafael J. Wysocki rjw at sisk.pl
Sat May 12 16:17:14 EDT 2012


On Saturday, May 12, 2012, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Saturday, May 12, 2012, Olof Johansson wrote:
> > On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw at sisk.pl> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Please pull changes since commit d48b97b403d23f6df0b990cee652bdf9a52337a3
> > >
> > >    Linux 3.4-rc6
> > >
> > > with top-most commit 5658c94096c16e769203b6dea5e5f04e7ff12633
> > >
> > >    Merge branch 'renesas-kzm9g' into renesas-soc-new
> > >
> > > from the git repository at:
> > >
> > >  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/renesas.git soc-new
> > >
> > > to receive new Renesas ARM-based platforms material for v3.5.  Included are:
> > >
> > >  * Urgent regression and SMP fixes (also included in the fixes branch that I've
> > >   just sent a separate pull request for in the hope it is still possible to
> > >   push them for v3.4).  Two of those fixes are duplicated in the renesas-sh7372
> > >   branch, which is because I learned that they were fixes for recent
> > >   regressions after they had gone to that branch.  Sorry about that.
> > >
> > >  * Updates for boards based on the sh7372 and r8a7740 SoCs.
> > >
> > >  * Support for 2 new boards, armadillo800eva and KZM-A9-GT.
> > 
> > Hi Rafael,
> > 
> > If you take a look at how the other ARM subarch maintainers organize
> > the patches that they feed up to us, you'll see that they group them
> > either per functional topic, or more commonly per subject such as
> > "core soc updates", "soc driver updates", "board updates", "device
> > tree updates", "cleanup", and so on.
> > 
> > That fits the model we've been having on arm-soc as well, since we
> > split our tree up per category like that, and send those cross-section
> > branches between different vendors (but same categories) up to Linus
> > that way.
> > 
> > 
> > So, would you mind taking a look at what you have in the new-soc
> > branch and reshuffling things a bit? Looking at the history of the
> > new-soc branch and the rest of the repo, it seems that you're already
> > more or less organizing your tree the way I am asking for, it's just
> > that you merged them all together before sending this pull request.
> 
> Well.
> 
> I'd prefer not to rebase any branches and move commits around if that's
> what you're talking about, because I have a rule that my branches are not
> rebased, except for the next one.

I will have to rebase the whole thing anyway because of the changes in
"fixes", so I think I'll just create new branches and send pull requests
again.

Thanks,
Rafael



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