[GIT PULL] Renesas ARM Based SoC Drivers Updates for v4.7

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Olof,

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 9:43 PM, Olof Johansson <olof at lixom.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 10:22:56AM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
>> Please consider these Renesas ARM based SoC drivers updates for v4.7.
>>
>>
>> The following changes since commit f55532a0c0b8bb6148f4e07853b876ef73bc69ca:
>>
>>   Linux 4.6-rc1 (2016-03-26 16:03:24 -0700)
>>
>> are available in the git repository at:
>>
>>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/horms/renesas.git tags/renesas-drivers-for-v4.7
>>
>> for you to fetch changes up to cd89841fc6dbb6dc11aa113769f39dcd30be720f:
>>
>>   ARM: shmobile: timer: Drop support for Cortex A8 (2016-03-28 09:01:31 +0900)
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> Renesas ARM Based SoC Drivers Updates for v4.7
>>
>> Loop delay calculation updates:
>> * Remove check for no longer supported Cortex A8 cores
>> * Correct short calculation of delay
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> Geert Uytterhoeven (2):
>>       ARM: shmobile: timer: Fix preset_lpj leading to too short delays
>>       ARM: shmobile: timer: Drop support for Cortex A8
>
> I don't understand your naming. THis isn't driver code, this is SoC code.
>
> Anyway, I replied to the drop-A8 patch, the resulting function doesn't make
> much sense once that code path is removed (div is always 1). Seems like this
> should be cleaned up in other ways instead.
>
> So, not merging this branch for now since I think it should be revisited.

The reason these are small separate patches is because especially the
first one may be backported to stable, as it's a real bug fix.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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