On Tuesday 29 October 2013, Daniel Walker wrote: > Why wouldn't you just update it to use the device tree ? There are lots > of phones our there using 7x30 .. > > This is one that Qualcomm specifically upstreamed, so what was the point > of upstreaming it ? Things like this happen a lot: you start with great ambitions, then real life takes over and everybody who was once working on it has moved on to other projects before the code actually works. We have the policy to let new code for incomplete platforms into the tree very liberally, but the flip side is that we have to remove them as swiftly if progress stops. Note that this is completely different from most of the older platforms like the StrongARM based machines that are way more outdated but are actually working just fine and getting fixed when they don't. The MSM platform is currently a mess with most SoCs broken most of the time. I definitely agree with David's approach of removing the ones that are not being worked on and finally getting the newer ones to work properly, and on the same level as the other platforms. Once that work is complete, adding back support for the older SoCs should become much easier if anyone is still interested, since the required changes (multiplatform, DT, ...) are targetted at reducing the effort of maintaining platforms. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
