[GIT PULL] ARM: OMAP2+: Add AM335x and AM3517/05 EVM DT support

Hiremath, Vaibhav hvaibhav at ti.com
Tue May 15 02:05:26 EDT 2012


On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 22:45:04, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> * Hiremath, Vaibhav <hvaibhav at ti.com> [120512 01:26]:
> > On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 01:26:20, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > * Cousson, Benoit <b-cousson at ti.com> [120511 05:51]:
> > > > Hi Tony,
> > > > 
> > > > Here are some remaining DT patches I was not able to push at 3.4 due to some missing dependency.
> > > > It applies now fine on top of lo/dt branch.
> > > 
> > > It seems that there are still patches being discussed for those SoCs
> > > and we're pretty much done for this merge window. So unless things
> > > drag on to -rc8, I'd say we just need to postpone merging new things
> > > and merge them early around -rc2.
> > > 
> > 
> > Oops...
> > It seems like I missed this merge window as well...
> 
> We can still queue these into linux-omap for testing as
> soon as the patches are ready.
> 
> In general, for anything more intrusive we want to have
> the patches sitting in linux-omap master branch and then
> in linux-next for at least a week. Then merging them into
> mainline tree is usually safe to do. The reason for this is
> that mainline kernel is our stable tree, not our
> development tree.
> 
> We just need to queue most of things between -rc2 and
> -rc4 into the arm-soc tree, and have any issues fixed up
> before the merge window. Trying to cram development
> branches in around -rc6 just causes us a huge maintenance
> nightmare trying to fix up things in the mainline tree
> between -rc1 and -rc4.
> 

Understood Tony...

This time I will try to follow up closely and will make sure that we have 
everything (especially new development) by rc2-rc4 window.

Thanks,
Vaibhav



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