[PATCH v2 00/11] ARM: shmobile: r8a7740/armadillo800eva legacy PM domain support

Geert Uytterhoeven geert at linux-m68k.org
Tue Sep 30 00:41:27 PDT 2014


Hi Magnus,

On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Magnus Damm <magnus.damm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> So what is a good way to proceed with this series I wonder?
>>
>> There are two options:
>>   1. Drop the two patches that introduce the D4 and A4MP PM domains,
>>   2. Amend the patches that introduce the D4 and A4MP PM domains to
>>      comment out the entries in the table in pm-r8a7740.c, like was done in
>>      the first submission.
>>
>> Both will cause conflicts when applying the successive patches.
>>
>> If you don't care about bisectability, you can implement option 2 as a
>> separate change, after applying the whole series.
>
> Thanks for leading the way! From my side I don't have any special
> feeling, so why don't you and Simon decide?

OK.

> If it was up to me only then I think option #1 that simply reduces the
> feature set seems rather natural, but perhaps it requires a lot of
> rework of the patches. If we go with option #1 we can always
> incrementally add D4 and A4MP later I assume.

Yes we can.

Please wait a bit, I'm looking into the !CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME case.
Mostly multi-platform, but it may affect legacy too, where there's interaction
with the drivers/sh/pm_runtime.c hack.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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