On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 22:55 +0000, Russell King wrote: > On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 09:26:55PM +0000, ian wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 20:10 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > Is there a time frame on when will this happen? Will you be ready > > > for the .26 merge window? > > > > I think the big sticking point now is getting the generic clock > > interface merged - Dmitry is working hard on that. > > And that requires a review from my side, which I've not been able to do > yet... > > It seems there's a number of dependencies that the code depends on, > and trying to push to remove an interface which is used on to-be-merged > code which is being _actively_ worked on to bring it to merge standard > is just stupid - that's a recipe for forcing folk into a corner where > they'll never have everything merged that they need for their particular > set of code. > > The alternative is that the code which uses it could be merged as is, > albiet without the dependents, so effectively it couldn't be built. > But then it'll satisfy Andi's grep that there are users in the tree. Don't worry. The interface fills a need (allocation of on chip or behind bridge memory) and we have two in tree users: NCR_Q720 and ochi-sm501, so it's not going anywhere. James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
