[GIT PULL] Third Round of Renesas ARM Based SoC Fixes for v3.19

[Olof Johansson]

On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 05:30:32PM -0800, Olof Johansson wrote:
>> Simon,
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Simon Horman
>> <horms+renesas at verge.net.au> wrote:
>> > Hi Olof, Hi Kevin, Hi Arnd,
>> >
>> > Please consider these third round of Renesas ARM based SoC fixes for v3.19.
>> >
>> > This pull request is based on the previous round of
>> > such requests, tagged as renesas-soc-fixes2-for-v3.19,
>> > which I have already sent a pull-request for.
>> >
>> >
>> > This fixes a regression in the r8a7790 and r8a73a4 SoCs due to
>> > 9a1091ef0017c40a ("irqchip: gic: Support hierarchy irq domain.")
>> > which was included in v3.19-rc1.
>> >
>> > This pull-request is targeted at v3.19. r8a7790 patch in this pull-request
>> > conflicts with the patch "ARM: shmobile: lager: Remove legacy board
>> > support" which was included in the pull request "Renesas ARM Based SoC
>> > Lager Board Removal for v3.20" which you have pulled for v3.20. The
>> > conflict occurs because board-lager.c is removed in that patch whereas
>> > this series updates that file.
>> >
>> > In other words, this series fixes board code for the lager/r8a7790 for v3.19
>> > which is scheduled for removal in v3.20.
>> >
>> >
>> > The following changes since commit f469cde20a7ee342070b4a459b6fce469a3186db:
>> >
>> >   ARM: shmobile: r8a7779: Instantiate GIC from C board code in legacy builds (2015-01-17 09:28:41 +0900)
>> >
>> > are available in the git repository at:
>> >
>> >   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/horms/renesas.git tags/renesas-soc-fixes3-for-v3.19
>> >
>> > for you to fetch changes up to 77cf5166f21c3b73b04571311dc89a327424f594:
>> >
>> >   ARM: shmobile: r8a7790: Instantiate GIC from C board code in legacy builds (2015-01-29 17:52:38 +0900)
>> >
>> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> > Third Round of Renesas ARM Based SoC Fixes for v3.19
>> >
>> > * Instantiate GIC from C board code in legacy builds on r8a7790 and r8a73a4
>> >
>> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> > Magnus Damm (2):
>> >       ARM: shmobile: r8a73a4: Instantiate GIC from C board code in legacy builds
>> >       ARM: shmobile: r8a7790: Instantiate GIC from C board code in legacy builds
>>
>> This is the third branch you've sent us with the same type of fixes.
>> Was there a reason for why you couldn't have prepared all of them at
>> the same time once it was known to be a systematic problem?
>
> Sorry about that, I agree this could have been batched up a bit better.
>
> The main reason that things occurred in this manner was that it took
> us a while to fix the problem on all the effected SoCs and as a result
> some of the fixes were ready quite some time ago while others only
> became available quite recently. It seemed reasonable to me to push out the
> fixes as they became available. Rather than risk all of the SoCs being
> broken in v3.19.
>
> However, as this seems to be a bit of a pain point for you, I'll work
> on batching things up more if we encounter such a wide-spread problem
> again. We are also working on being able to catch regressions earlier
> to try to avoid having to patching things up in this manner.

It's not a pain point, and you can send them when ready, it just
seemed odd that they kept trickling in over time. Which is why I
brought it up.


-Olof