[GIT PULL] Multi Cluster Power Management infrastructure

[Grant Likely]

On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 9:33 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> On Friday 05 April 2013, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>>
>> Now, I'm currently on holiday.  I'm going to be on holday until after
>> mid-April.  I'm not pulling anything until then.  I'm not applying anything
>> until then.  I'm not even reading this mailbox - and given current mail
>> rates at 300-400 messages per day, I will *not* be reading back over a
>> fortnights worth of email.
>
> I haven't reviewed the patches before, and only heard of the controversy
> from Nico's email yesterday. Independent of your personal situation and
> who implemented the code, I think it's clear that a lot of people (not
> just Linaro) want to see it get merged and not having it upstream is
> blocking platform specific code from getting put into arm-soc.
>
> Since you are currently on holiday, I think it's best if we at least put
> it into asm-soc as a for-rmk/mcpm branch in order to give it coverage
> in linux-next and let us merge the dependent platform code into "late"
> branches for 3.10. I still hope the nontechnical issues can be resolved
> in time to let you pull it into your tree before the merge window.

I agree. This makes the most sense. There is no reason for mcpm to be
excluded from linux-next before this issue is resolved.

g.