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

Magnus Damm magnus.damm at gmail.com
Tue Sep 30 01:05:17 PDT 2014


Hi Geert,

On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert at linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for the clarification.

> 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.

I see, thanks for looking into that. No need for stop-and-go
development rush though...

Cheers,

/ magnus



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