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

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Olof,Simon,

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 10:23 PM, Olof Johansson <olof at lixom.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 09:57:39PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> 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:
>> >> 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.
>
> Ok, so then the second shouldn't just remove cortex-a8, but rework the function
> (yet again).

Sure, reworking it...

Simon: I'm a bit surprised to see that "ARM: shmobile: timer: Fix preset_lpj
leading to too short delays" got postponed to v4.7, while commit 406663ed61c8
("ARM: shmobile: defconfig: Do not enable CONFIG_CPU_BPREDICT_DISABLE") is
already in v4.6-rc1.  The latter makes bad behavior due to too short delays
more likely to happen.

Sorry for not noticing before.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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