Hi Matthias On Tue, 2018-07-10 at 12:52 +0200, Matthias Brugger wrote: > > On 10/07/18 01:04, Mars Cheng wrote: [...] > > pmic/pwrap/i2c/rtc/kpd/spi/wdt/cqdma/auxadc/pwm/cmdq/disp. We have > > dedicated owners to handle them and will cowork tightly with members to > > make sure things happen in the following weeks. > > > > Ok, so let's wait until pinctrl driver is submitted. I'd prefer if you could add > the clk driver to this series. This way we can get rid of the dummy clocks in > the device tree. > Got it, I will submit this series with clk support in v5. and pinctrl after that. > > For previous chips, we did have no enough support after shell. It is due > > to fast pace of smartphone SoC and other resource issues. We also know > > that is no excuse so that we already confirmed owners and their > > schedules for mt6765. > > > > If there is any suggestion, please let us know. > > > > I know that smartphone SoC is a fast paced business. Never the less I'm > convinced that the basic building blocks won't change much from one version to > another. And that mainline support for the previous version of your SoC will > help you to get your new drivers faster upstream. > > For me the best example is the mt7622 which got to a reasonable upstream support > quite fast, thanks to a good foundation of mt7623 in mainline. I'd love to see > that happen on the smartphone SoCs as well. > > Not to mention that upstream support will help you internally when you have to > rebase your BSP code-base to a new kernel version. > > That said I think it is good news that you have already defined owner for the > different devices and hope to see submissions for them in the near future :) > As a suggestion I would say that upstream submission takes time and effort and > it will help your engineers if they can allocate some time to do so. But that's > most probably a management decision and all engineers know that management bases > it's decision on some hard-to-understandable abbreviations like EBITDA etc. ;) > > Best regards, > Matthias Thanks for your suggestions. We will try to catch up on this mission :-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
