[PATCH] ARM: mvebu: pass the coherency availability information at init time

Greg KH gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Tue Jun 30 09:48:26 PDT 2015


On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 11:09:03PM +1000, Greg Ungerer wrote:
> 
> 
> On 30/06/15 10:31, Greg KH wrote:
> >On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 11:19:43AM +1000, Greg Ungerer wrote:
> >>On 12/06/15 00:51, Greg KH wrote:
> >>>On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 09:25:49AM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> >>>>Greg, Greg,
> >>>>
> >>>>On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 14:04:18 +1000, Greg Ungerer wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>>Why?  What's wrong with taking the exact specific upstream patches
> >>>>>>instead?
> >>>>>The exact patch mentioned below ("5686a1e5aa4") will not apply.
> >>>>>Too much of the code around it has changed. This does the same
> >>>>>thing in the same away taking into account the changes around it.
> >>>>As the original author of 5686a1e5aa4 ("bus: mvebu: pass the coherency
> >>>>availability information at init time"), I can confirm that it will
> >>>>clearly not apply as is on 3.10. What Greg Ungerer is proposing here is
> >>>>a backport of 5686a1e5aa4 to 3.10.
> >>>What about 3.14-stable?
> >>As Thomas pointed out, yes. Due to file movements and other changes
> >>neither this patch (for 3.10.y) or the original commit 5686a1e5aa4
> >>apply cleanly to 3.14.y.
> >>
> >>How do you want to handle that for 3.14.y?
> >I need a backport for 3.14.y as well.
> >
> >And I need a signed-off-by: from the subsystem maintainers that this
> >backport is acceptable, as it's so different from what is in Linus's
> >tree, before I can take it.
> 
> Ok, I will prepare a 3.14 port. I will send to all recipients of this mail,
> that should catch all those who need to sign off on it.
> 
> I have generated a version 2 of the original 3.10 patch. No change to
> the code diffs, but it changes the commit message to include all of the
> original commit followed by a brief description of the back port. Perhaps
> this is better?

Yes, much better, thanks, I'll go queue those up later today.

greg k-h



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