[GIT PULL] DaVinci fixes for v3.12-rc

Alexander Holler holler at ahsoftware.de
Fri Sep 20 13:45:59 EDT 2013


Am 20.09.2013 19:40, schrieb Olof Johansson:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 11:06 PM, Alexander Holler <holler at ahsoftware.de> wrote:
>> Am 19.09.2013 19:48, schrieb Olof Johansson:
>>> Hi Sekhar,
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 3:22 AM, Sekhar Nori <nsekhar at ti.com> wrote:
>>>> The following changes since commit 272b98c6455f00884f0350f775c5342358ebb73f:
>> ...
>>
>>>> 3) A patch to complete the DT support for EDMA. Without
>>>>     this patch, the DT support for EDMA cannot be used.
>>>>     There are no in-tree DT users of EDMA currently but
>>>>     nevertheless the patch fixes a previously incomplete
>>>>     implementation.
>>>
>>> Finishing incomplete work is not a fix, especially if the users aren't
>>> in-tree. The other patches are just fine to include though.
>>
>> It fixes problems for all people which are not using the provided DT's
>> but using edma in their own DT. So I don't understand your arguing as DT
>> got introduced to not only support in-tree configs. It clearly fixes
>> problems.
>
> Right, that was the smaller part of the argument. The bigger is:
> Completing a feature is not a fix. If the whole feature didn't make it
> in for a release, then the rest goes into the next release.

Bureaucrazy at it's best.

Regards,

Alexander Holler



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