[PATCH v2 3/5] arm: mvebu: update defconfig with local timer support

Gregory CLEMENT gregory.clement at free-electrons.com
Fri Feb 15 17:04:14 EST 2013


On 02/15/2013 10:56 PM, Jason Cooper wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 06:32:43PM +0100, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
>> Now that we have support for local timers, enable it by default
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement at free-electrons.com>
>> ---
>>  arch/arm/configs/mvebu_defconfig |    1 -
>>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Applied patches 1, 2, and 3 of this series to mvebu/boards.  In the
> future, please put driver changes first (patch #2) with few if any
> dependencies.
> 
> In this case, since these patches depended on SMP support added to
> mvebu/boards, I had to apply them to mvebu/boards to prevent a circular
> dependency.

Well the patch #2 can't work without the #1 (local interrupt support), so if
the order is changed then we loose the "bissecatiblity". That was the reason of
this order.

I hope Olof talk at ELC will help to understand better this workflow!

> 
> thx,
> 
> Jason.
> 


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