[PATCH 4/4] ARM: ks8695: convert to generic time and clocksource

[Greg Ungerer]

Hi Arnd,

On 09/03/2012 09:15 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 03 September 2012, Greg Ungerer wrote:
>>>
>>> Note that this platform is one of those we talked about removing
>>> from the kernel for potentially being completely unused. Do we have
>>> reason to believe that people are still using ks8695 for anything
>>> with new kernels?
>>
>> I'll put my hand up as a user of it. I run every release kernel
>> on KS8695 platforms, though I don't tend to do much testing of
>> rc kernels on it.
>
> Ok, very good. Booting every new kernel on a platform is more testing
> than a lot of the older platforms get as far as I can tell.
>
>>> If any of you are doing that, we'll definitely keep the port around,
>>> the idea is not to break anything that people are actually using.
>>> In that case, I would like to see a MAINTAINERS entry for the platform
>>> so we have a contact for someone who is able to ack and maybe test
>>> patches.
>>
>> I am happy enough to ack and test changes, if no one else wants to
>> do it. I don't expect to do any real active development on it though.
>> I do have some board files that would have been nice to push into
>> mainline, but I have been holding off (for quite a while), hoping
>> that someone might support DTs on this sub-arch.
>
> If nobody is actually working on new stuff, we might be better off
> with just merging the board files you have. If you don't mind, just
> post what you have and then we can decide what to do with them.

Ok, will do.

Regards
Greg



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