[PATCH v7 1/5] drivers: memory: Introduce Marvell EBU Device Bus driver

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 03:10:59PM -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:43:37PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 04:04:00PM -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> > > > Marvell EBU SoCs such as Armada 370/XP, Orion5x (88f5xxx) and
> > > > Discovery (mv78xx0) supports a Device Bus controller to access several
> > > > kinds of memories and I/O devices (NOR, NAND, SRAM, FPGA).
> > > > 
> > > > This commit adds a driver to handle this controller. So far only
> > > > Armada 370, Armada XP and Discovery SoCs are supported.
> > > > 
> > > > The driver must be registered through a device tree node;
> > > > as explained in the binding document.
> > > > 
> > > > For each child node in the device tree, this driver will:
> > > >   * set timing parameters
> > > >   * register a child device
> > > >   * setup an address decoding window, using the mbus driver
> > > > 
> > > > Keep in mind the address decoding window setup is only a temporary hack.
> > > > This code will be removed from this devbus driver as soon as a proper device
> > > > tree binding for the mbus driver is added.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia at free-electrons.com>
> > > > Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> > > > ---
> > > >  .../bindings/memory-controllers/mvebu-devbus.txt   | 156 ++++++++++
> > > >  drivers/memory/Kconfig                             |  10 +
> > > >  drivers/memory/Makefile                            |   1 +
> > > >  drivers/memory/mvebu-devbus.c                      | 340 +++++++++++++++++++++
> > > >  4 files changed, 507 insertions(+)
> > > >  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/memory-controllers/mvebu-devbus.txt
> > > >  create mode 100644 drivers/memory/mvebu-devbus.c
> > > 
> > > As every commit to drivers/memory has been signed by you, would you like
> > > to take this patch through your tree?  Or, I'll take it through arm-soc
> > > with your Ack to keep the series together.
> > 
> > Sure, feel free to take this through your tree and add:
> > 
> > Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
> 
> Olof (in Cc) has just decided to drop the entire pull request from
> Jason Cooper which contained this driver.
> This means this patch will have to wait until v3.11.
> 
> The reasons for dropping the pull was because of a build error on powerpc64,
> completely unrelated to this driver, the faulty commit was 9ecbe03ae85b
> ("pci: infrastructure to add drivers in drivers/pci/host").
> 
> Is it possible that you take this patch instead, so it can make it in v3.10?

Sure, resend it to me today please.

thanks,

greg k-h