On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 2:35 AM, Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 05, 2015 at 10:58:04AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >> This patch series add L1 and L2 cache descriptions to DT for r8a7740 and >> sh73a0, and migrates the shmobile DT-based generic r8a7740 and >> armadillo legacy platforms from calling l2x0_of_init() to the generic >> l2c OF initialization. >> Dependencies: >> - This series applies to renesas-devel-20150805-v4.2-rc5, >> - Patch 2 depends on patch 1, >> - Patch 4 depends on patch 2, Sorry, "... on patch 3". >> - Patch 5 depends on patch 1 and on "ARM: 8395/1: l2c: Add support for >> the "arm,shared-override" property" in arm/for-next, >> - Patch 6 depends on patch 5. >> >> Given C code patches depending on DT patches in the same branch are >> frowned upon, I think it would be best if patch 1 (and patch 3, if >> anyone thinks we may fix the secondary CPU bringup issue during the next >> 3 months) are queued for v4.3. The other patches can be queued for >> 2016^H^H^H^Hv4.4. > > Sorry for surprising you with that merge-order requirement. In theory it sounds fine, as DT and code are independent. Moving functionality from C to DT is something different... > Unfortunately I am not comfortable with taking patch 1 for v4.3 because: > 1. Its now very late in the cycle I understand. > 2. There now seems to be some discussion around it. Yeah, that's what v4s are for... Let's wait and see if/when it settles... > I think I am happy to take the other patches for v4.4, now. But perhaps > I should wait for the discussion around patch 1 to conclude first? Which other patches? Patch 3 has the same issue as patch 1. And all the rest depends on patch 1 or patch 3... So there's nothing left to apply yet... Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html