On Fri, 13 May 2016, Vineet Gupta wrote: > On Friday 13 May 2016 03:55 PM, Marc Zyngier wrote: > > On 13/05/16 10:51, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > >> On Friday 13 May 2016 14:05:41 Vineet Gupta wrote: > >>> On Friday 13 May 2016 01:54 PM, Marc Zyngier wrote: > >>>> On 12/05/16 22:03, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > >>> ... > >>>>> > >>>>> config EZNPS_GIC > >>>>> bool "NPS400 Global Interrupt Manager (GIM)" > >>>>> + depends on ARC || (COMPILE_TEST && !64BIT) > >>>>> select IRQ_DOMAIN > >>>>> help > >>>>> Support the EZchip NPS400 global interrupt controller > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <narc.zyngier at arm.com> > >>>> > >>>> As I've already started collecting fixes that are aimed at -rc1 (mostly > >>>> to avoid dependencies), I can queue that as well. > >>> > >>> There is a slight logistics issue here - as agreed the driver will go in 4.7-rc1 > >>> via ARC tree. So either I pick the fix for rc1 or you apply it post rc1 - or > >>> towards the end of rc1 ? > >>> > >> > >> I'd say the best option is to have you pick up the fix for the ARC tree, > >> but either way works. > > > > That'd work for me too (I've acked it anyway). Just let me know what you > > decide to do. > > I'd prefer Marc takes it post rc1. The reason being chances of merge conflicts > between ARC and tip trees increase with ARC tree changing drivers/irqchip/*. We've > seen two of those already which Stephen fixed up in linux-next. Although > admittedly the conflicts are trivial and given the location of this diff hunk it > might not happen at all.... If the driver is new and in ARC then the fix should go into ARC and shipped with the pull request. Thanks, tglx