[GIT PULL] ARM: imx: device tree changes for 3.15, take 1

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Mon Feb 10 10:19:21 EST 2014


On Sunday 09 February 2014, Shawn Guo wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 02:45:05PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Wednesday 05 February 2014, Shawn Guo wrote:

> > no objections to the stuff you add here, but the way it's organized
> > is not good. Instead of adding the controversial patches first and
> > then reverting them, please redo the series so you don't actually
> > have the patches in the history. I see that you have rebased the
> > patches on 3.14-rc1 already so there really shouldn't be any cross-
> > tree dependencies that make it necessary to keep them in.
> 
> Okay.  I just spent the weekend to rebuild the branch and reworked quite
> a lot of patches to wipe the pingrp stuff from the history.

Thanks!

> > it would be nice to split it up into smaller units. A good
> > separation would be to have new board support in one pull
> > request and the changes to existing boards in another one.
> 
> Some new board support are built on top of the updates to the existing
> files for purpose like sharing common part.  And some updates are added
> on top of new board support along time goes.  So it's hard to make such
> separation.  Considering the amount of imx6 changes these days, I chose
> to split the branch into two, one for imx6 changes and the other for all
> the rest.  Such separation does not involve too much interdependency.

Ok, good idea.

	Arnd



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