[PATCH v3 01/13] ARM: mvebu: rename armada-370-xp.c to armada-mvebu.c

Jason Cooper jason at lakedaemon.net
Sun Feb 16 21:49:51 EST 2014


On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 02:29:24PM +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Sebastian Hesselbarth,
> 
> On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 14:24:01 +0100, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
> 
> > > Why not. But since this kind of change can be done without breaking the
> > > DT compatibility, I'd first prefer to see Dove support merged into
> > > mach-mvebu/ with its board file named mach-mvebu/dove.c. Then
> > > progressively see what can be combined with armada-mvebu.c so that we
> > > can merge both of them into board-v7.c.
> > 
> > Actually, just prepared those patches today. Haven't boot tested but
> > compiles cleanly. The patch set will be really small compared to KW
> > patch set (but de-hardcoded pinctrl-dove will be a prerequisite).
> 
> Cool! I'm planning on giving a test to your pinctrl patches this
> afternoon, if all goes well.
> 
> > I also prefer to move to mach-mvebu/dove.c and then merge with
> > armada-3{78}{05x} a cycle later.
> 
> Yes, I agree. I'm fully convinced by the idea of merging the v7 support
> together, but we need to proceed step by step to avoid having horrible
> merge issues during the 3.15 cycle.

Yeah, I don't see how anything can go wrong at all.  :)

btw - I'll hold off on pulling this for a new revision.  Looks like the
only change left in the file name.

thx,

Jason.



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