[GIT PULL 3/4] ARM: mvebu: boards for v3.9

Olof Johansson olof at lixom.net
Sat Feb 9 19:31:13 EST 2013


On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 08:20:15AM -0500, Jason Cooper wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 03:26:04PM -0800, Olof Johansson wrote:
> > What makes sense is to hold off the patches that adds dts entries and
> > removes the platform device registrations to the next release to avoid
> > this dependency.
> 
> Hmm, this makes life a *lot* simpler, but it also really slows things
> down.  I'll go ahead and do this from now on.
> 
> Would you like me to redo /boards and /dt in light of this, or just do
> it from here forward?

It doesn't necessarily slow things down -- it increases latency though. I.e.
you'll end up building a pipeline over time.

I agree that we're not entirely clear on this, and we're also going back and
forth a bit on how much of this we push back on and not. I don't think we've
found quite a good balance of this yet. Hm.


-Olof



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