Code generation involving __raw_readl and __raw_writel

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Thu Nov 27 13:49:55 PST 2014


On Thursday 27 November 2014 22:26:48 Mason wrote:
> On 27/11/2014 17:51, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 
> > On Thursday 27 November 2014 16:18:20 Måns Rullgård wrote:
> >
> >> That's great.  You mentioned working against 3.14.  Do you have any
> >> plans to move onto the current version?  That would be a prerequisite
> >> for upstream acceptance.
> > 
> > FWIW, it's also a good strategy to do the initial bringup on the latest
> > kernel and then backport to the older one for product work, otherwise
> > you end up doing the forward port twice, and it's almost always harder
> > than a backport.
> 
> Hmmm, I was told to target 3.14, because that's what we plan to support.
> 
> Maybe I can push one driver at a time?
> (I have no idea if this is realistic or not.)
> 

Doing one driver at a time is the normal way anyway, what I'm saying
is just that it's more work for you if you first port everything to 3.14.

	Arnd



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