[GIT PULL] ARM: vexpress: Updates for v4.7

Sudeep Holla sudeep.holla at arm.com
Mon Apr 25 02:18:07 PDT 2016


Hi Arnd,

On 24/04/16 22:35, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 15 April 2016 18:51:01 Sudeep Holla wrote:
>
>> This time addition of support for Cortex-M based MPS2 system is
>> the main highlight. I could not split the patches into platform,
>> driver and DT because it's newly added and have Kconfig/Makefile
>> dependency.
>
> I don't get it. Why is there a dependency between the three things?
>

Sorry, I was just thinking from testing perspective earlier

> Usually nothing breaks by adding any of those things, so the only
> dependency is that you need them all in order to make the platform
> work, but that is not enough reason to put them into a common branch.
>

OK, I will check again. I agree nothing should break.

> Please respin this. When you do, it probably makes sense to
> separate the changes for vexpress from the new MPS2 platform
> into distinct branches.
>

OK

-- 
Regards,
Sudeep



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