[PATCH] ARM: mxs: Let GPMI driver be built by default

Marek Vasut marex at denx.de
Mon May 21 02:22:40 EDT 2012


Dear Shawn Guo,

> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 07:39:46AM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > Dear Shawn Guo,
> > 
> > > On 21 May 2012 12:48, Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
> > > > Heh, if we get such trivial things in so late, the imx28 will be dead
> > > > platform by the time it's supported mainline :-)
> > > 
> > > It's late for v3.5 merge window.
> > 
> > Well back in -around .30- it was still ok to add minor stuffs even if it
> > was around rc1, they didn't break anything afterall. And this doesn't
> > break anything (well, the gpmi driver is broken, so fix it ... if you
> > get more people to use it, you'll have the fixes pouring your direction
> > ... isn't that your objective, to make linux kernel even better than it
> > is?)
> 
> The -rc should mostly be for bugfix.  I also hope we can enable the
> driver in defconfig as soon as possible, but I won't do it until the
> driver is actually working with all known bugs fixed.

You've chosen the wrong approach then. There's always one remaining bug. But the 
more eyes on the code, the faster the bugs will be fixed.

Best regards,
Marek Vasut



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