[PATCH 02/04] ARM: shmobile: r8a7791 SCIF support

Simon Horman horms at verge.net.au
Mon Sep 9 03:09:43 EDT 2013


On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 08:54:59AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 2:15 AM, Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au> wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 06:27:22PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> 
> >> Again this looks like it is piling up more legacy clk
> >> code instead of moving to the new frameworks.
> >>
> >> Please include Mike Turquette on future postings of the
> >> clk code, he's definately our best clock code reviewer.
> >
> > Perhaps I was a bit hasty, but I have already queued up these changes.
> > And moreover I believe they are useful in their current form for
> > back-porting to LTSI-3.4, which I have also already done.
> 
> That sounds like you're a bit too trigger-happy ;-)

Perhaps.

> > So on those two counts my preference would be for any enhancements
> > to be done as incremental patches on top of this series.
> 
> Hm hm. I am worried that it is taken as an OK to proceed
> extending old cruft for new SoCs rather than moving to new
> frameworks. I would agree if such migration patches were
> floating the lists but I am not aware of any patches starting
> to create drivers/clk/sh*, are you?

I am not aware of such patches.

I will defer this to Magnus who is both the author of this series
and I believe the person who knows the most about the plans for
drivers/clk/sh*.



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