[GIT PULL] clockevents/clocksource: Add Marvell Orion SoC timer

[Jason Cooper]

On Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 06:45:15PM +0200, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> On 07/07/2013 05:30 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Sun, 7 Jul 2013, Jason Cooper wrote:
> >> Sure, but to be clear, Daniel, please drop this patch from your tree.  I
> >> have no desire to create an out-of-tree dependency if we can avoid it.
> >> It has a habit of going horribly wrong [1].
> >>
> >> I'll cherry-pick
> >>
> >>   0c1dcfd clocksource: Add Marvell Orion SoC timer
> > 
> > Don't do that. Do a git fetch on that branch and then git merge
> > 0c1dcfd. The patches before that Marvel commit are already in Linus
> > tree. That way it does not matter who sends first or not.
> > 
> > We don't force others to drop stuff and cherry picking is a nuisance
> > as well as you end up with two different commits doing the same thing.
> > 
> > Also for the next merge window: Can we please let everything under
> > drivers/clocksoure go through Daniels and my trees?
> > 
> > I'm starting to be grumpy about anyone thinking that this directory is
> > a public dump ground with no rules.
> 
> Yes I agree. I will meet John this week and we will sort out this and
> define a clear set of rules to prevent that to happen again.

Oh god no!  The rules we have are fine.  "Defer to the appropriate
maintainer first."  Which I did (that's why the patch is in your tree
;-) ).  A mistake happened, and we're working together to find the best
solution.

The last thing we need is more bureaucratic crap.

thx,

Jason.