regression: OMAP4 (next-20141204) (bisect to: ARM: 8208/1: l2c: Refactor the driver to use commit-like)

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 10:13:51AM -0600, Nishanth Menon wrote:
> On 12/05/2014 10:10 AM, Nishanth Menon wrote:
> > Case #2: Reverting the following allows boot.
> > 
> > From next-20141204
> > 10df7d5 ARM: 8211/1: l2c: Add support for overriding prefetch settings
> > revert this  -> boot still fails
> > 
> > d42ced0 ARM: 8210/1: l2c: Get outer cache .write_sec callback from
> > mach_desc only if not NULL
> > revert this  -> boot still fails
> > 
> > 46b9af8 ARM: 8209/1: l2c: Add interface to ask hypervisor to configure L2C
> > revert this  -> boot still fails
> > 
> > c94e325 ARM: 8208/1: l2c: Refactor the driver to use commit-like
> > revert this  -> boot passed (first bad commit).
> > 
> > 
> 
> + linux-samsung soc and updated Thomaz's mail ID (gmail now).

Given where we are in the cycle (-final likely this weekend) the only
thing we can do right now is to drop the patch set; exynos (and mvebu)
will have to wait another cycle until this patch set (hopefully in a
revised form) can be merged.

I think we need 8208/1 split up into smaller changes so that the cause
of this regression can be found.

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