[PATCH 0/3] ARM: uniphier: add outer cache support and rework SMP operations

Olof Johansson olof at lixom.net
Mon Aug 24 20:05:45 PDT 2015


On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 6:50 PM, Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.masahiro at socionext.com> wrote:
> Hi Olof,
>
>
> 2015-08-25 6:47 GMT+09:00 Olof Johansson <olof at lixom.net>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 7:18 PM, Masahiro Yamada
>> <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com> wrote:
>>> 1/3: add outer cache support
>>> 2/3: rework SMP operations
>>> 3/3: add device tree nodes
>>
>> Timing of this is unfortunate, please resend after 4.3-rc1 is out and
>> we can queue it up.
>
> Given that rc8 is out and the merge window has been delayed,
> is it still too late for 4.3-rc1?

Yes.

>>> Because 2/3 highly depends on 1/3, I hope whole of this series
>>> is applied to ARM-SOC tree.
>>
>> Review or acked-by from Russell would be appreciated in that case.
>>
>>> Olof,
>>> From this series, I am using "ARM: uniphier:" rather than "ARM: UniPhier:"
>>> for the subject prefixes because I noticed you often rephased so when you
>>> applied my patches.
>>> Are sub-arch names in lower cases preferable in subject prefixes?
>>
>> If you look at "git log --no-merges --oneline arch/arm/mach-*" you'll
>> see that most platforms use either all-caps or all-lowercase.
>
> I see.
>
> But, we use "UniPhier" (with only U and P capitalized) in our official
> documents.

That's OK, others surely capitalize their platform names too in
documentation. Some of them even have funkier capitalization than
that, such as "SPEAr".


-Olof



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