[GIT PULL] ux500 DMA40 device tree migration base

[Lee Jones]

On Mon, 27 May 2013, Olof Johansson wrote:

> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 09:34:22PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> > Hi ARM SoC folks,
> > 
> > here is a patch set that Lee has been chiseling out recently. I've
> > accumulated it in my ux500 tree and piled ACKs on the first 36
> > patches of the patch set. Basically that includes ACKs from
> > subsystem maintainers Vinod Koul and Herbert Xu for affected
> > parts.
> > 
> > We need to get this into Linux-next to proceed with further
> > migration on top of it. All have been circulated on the lists for
> > a while.
> > 
> > Please pull this into an apropriate ARM SoC branch for v3.11!
> > 
> > If we can get ACKs for the rest of the patches in Lee's set these
> > will arrive on top of this base as soon as they are ready.
> > 
> > Yours,
> > Linus Walleij
> > 
> > The following changes since commit f722406faae2d073cc1d01063d1123c35425939e:
> > 
> >   Linux 3.10-rc1 (2013-05-11 17:14:08 -0700)
> > 
> > are available in the git repository at:
> > 
> >   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-stericsson.git
> > tags/ux500-dma40-for-arm-soc
> 
> Thanks, pulled into next/drivers.
> 
> I see the conversions have been made the brute-force way instead of keeping
> backwards compatibility and cleaning up drivers before removing no longer
> needed board code. That should be fine, as long as you don't introduce too
> crazy dependencies (and conflicts) in the code you're talking about adding on
> top. 

It's not as bad as you make it sound. The platform devices which we
converted over were either already converted (mmci, amba-pl011), not
used (crypt, hash, musb) or broken (mop500-asoc). So it really should
be no big deal.

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Lee Jones
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