Samsung-clk patches for 3.15

Tomasz Figa tomasz.figa at gmail.com
Mon Jan 27 18:37:37 EST 2014


[Forgot to Cc Mike...]

On 24.01.2014 15:38, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Linux 3.14 is going to include Andrzej Hajda's patches converting
> Samsung clock drivers to use clock ID defines in include/dt-bindings,
> instead of local enums, but to avoid unnecessary merge conflicts we have
> converted only the clock driver, leaving DTS files unchanged yet.
>
> We intend to complete the conversion in 3.15, by replacing magic numbers
> in DTS files with respective preprocessor macros, but to reduce
> potential conflicts we need help of you, Samsung clock patches authors :).
>
> I'd like to ask anybody who already has patches for DTS files adding any
> clock-related contents still using numeric IDs, e.g. clock properties in
> nodes or full nodes containing clock properties, to make sure that the
> patches are merged before Andrzej sends the conversion patches. Then
> Andrzej's script will generate patches updating all clock properties,
> leaving no numeric IDs in DTS files.
>
> If you are just starting your work on a patch that introduces changes as
> mentioned above, please make sure to already use clock macros, not
> numeric IDs. Otherwise you risk having needless rebases with a lot of
> conflicts. You have been warned ;).
>
> Best regards,
> Tomasz
>
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