[PATCH 1/7] ARM: specify ZRELADDR for ARCH_TEGRA

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Wed Sep 8 08:16:34 EDT 2010


Hello Russell,

On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 12:56:10PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 10:11:13AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 09:23:29PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 12:19:26PM -0700, Erik Gilling wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Uwe Kleine-König
> > > > > (hmm, I thought that patches that touch common files like
> > > > > arch/arm/Kconfig should go via rmk?!)
> > > > 
> > > > I looked and saw that others (specifically samsung) had submitted this
> > > > fix directly to Linus.  I'm still learning the ropes here and am happy
> > > > to hear some clarification either way.
> > >
> > > Note that just me wondering if it's right doesn't necessarily means it's
> > > not.  Russell, can you comment?  Is it trivial enough and obviously only
> > > tegra related that it's OK?
> > 
> > The problem happens when there's related changes already in others git
> > trees which clash or conflict with those changes.
> > 
> > This whole CONFIG_ZRELADDR thing seems like a step backwards towards a
> > situation where we will get conflicts with multiple changes - but without
> > gaining anything substantial in moving away from Makefile.boot.
> > 
> > Unless someone can come up with a real justification for CONFIG_ZRELADDR
> > I'm mindful to revert it.  (But - if people have sent these changes to
> > Linus already, that's going to make reverting it a lot harder.)
> 
> This is what I'm considering committing to sort out this ZRELADDR mess -
> it gives people who want AUTO_ZRELADDR their pie, while allowing us to
> keep the proven reliability of original method of handling ZRELADDR.
Would be OK for me.  We might have to fix up some machines though.

Best regards
Uwe

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