[RFC][PATCH v4? 0/7] Adaptive Body-Bias for OMAP

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Tue Oct 16 12:32:25 EDT 2012


* Mike Turquette <mturquette at ti.com> [121011 15:27]:
> Quoting Nishanth Menon (2012-10-11 06:33:04)
> > On 18:26-20121003, Mike Turquette wrote:
> > > From: Mike Turquette <mturquette at linaro.org>
> > [...]
> > > 
> > >  arch/arm/mach-omap2/Makefile                  |    8 +-
> > >  arch/arm/mach-omap2/abb.c                     |  322 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >  arch/arm/mach-omap2/abb.h                     |   94 ++++++++
> > [...]
> > >  arch/arm/plat-omap/include/plat/voltage.h     |    1 +
> > >  18 files changed, 699 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
> > >  create mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-omap2/abb.c
> > >  create mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-omap2/abb.h
> > >  create mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-omap2/abb36xx_data.c
> > >  create mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-omap2/abb44xx_data.c
> > 
> > dumb question: with the request to move everything out of mach-omap2
> > directory, do we still want to add more files into mach-omap2?
> > 
> 
> Not a dumb question at all.  I approached this problem by modeling it
> after existing voltage layer code (in particular the vp and vc drivers).
> 
> My hope is to get it merged as-is and then bundle the abb code up with
> the vp/vc migration to drivers/* when that happens some day.  People
> using omap36xx and above need this code now, so it seems prudent to take
> this approach today.

This is needed, but makes moving the vc code to drivers a bit
more complex.

So we also need a plan to move this all to drivers in the follow
up patches. And we need a maintainer for the code. Who is going to
be doing all that?

Regards,

Tony



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