Re: Patches for 2.6.39 merge window

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On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Colin Cross wrote at Thursday, March 03, 2011 3:25 PM:
>> I pushed the merge of Ben's i2c-tegra as for-next-i2c.  I will put any
>> patches that depend on i2c support in that branch, and keep it rebased
>> on top of for-next.
>
> Previously, Olof said he'd take my board patches through his tree. I assume
> that's no longer the plan, and I should just create a patch-set based on
> Tegra for-next or for-next-i2c?
>
> FYI, I now have 3 patches left not applied, in git log order:
>
> ARM: Tegra: Enable Harmony audio support
>
>    * Set up platform data required by I2C, and ASoC machine & codec drivers.
>    * Enable required GPIO pins as GPIOs.
>    * Initialize audio-related clocks.
>    * Correctly configure pinmux for audio-related GPIOs.
>
>    (this can be split to parts before/after picking up latest ASoC, and
>    perhaps also part for for-next, part for for-next-i2c?)
>
> ARM: Tegra: Create defines for GPIO names
>
>    This ensures they're kept in sync between platform_data definitions and
>    the GPIO table initialization.
>
>    (Should apply right away, to for-next)
>
> ARM: Tegra: Add devices.c entries for audio
>
>    For I2S, DAS, PCM devices
>
>    (Should apply right away, to for-next)
>
>> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Colin Cross <ccross@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > (resending as plain text)
>> >
>> > To prevent the merge window from becoming a mess, patches are supposed
>> > to be in linux-next by rc6 of the previous release.
>> >
>> > Ben never responded to my question about merging i2c-tegra, so I'll
>> > merge it for now.
>> >
>> > On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> >> Colin Cross wrote at Thursday, March 03, 2011 12:12 PM:
>> >>>
>> >>> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Mark Brown
>> >>> <broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >>> > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 01:01:23PM -0800, Colin Cross wrote:
>> >>> >> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Mark Brown
>> >>> >
>> >>> >> > That's the standard way of handling this sort of thing - just
>> send
>> >>> the
>> >>> >> > patch in a second pull request once the dependencies have all
>> landed.
>> >>> >
>> >>> >> You could also put it in the tegra-arch branch and we could both
>> re-
>> >>> merge it.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > I basically can't rebase my tree - it's merged into Takashi's tree
>> and
>> >>> > there's lots of cross dependencies with my 2.6.38 fixes branch which
>> >>> > would cause bisect breakage.  If you want to cherry pick the
>> relevant
>> >>> > WM8903 commit over into your tree that'd also be OK by me.
>> >>> >
>> >>>
>> >>> We should be fine with two pull requests.  I would still like to get
>> >>> all the changes into the for-next branch, without the wm8903 header
>> >>> change, but with the harmony file that depends on it.  I will point
>> >>> the for-linus branch at the last change that compiles without the
>> >>> wm8903 header change. linux-next should get the ASoC tree and the
>> >>> Tegra for-next tree, so everything should compile there.
>> >>
>> >> OK. I can easily split my patch into two:
>> >> a) Add basically everything, except for the gpio_base WM8903 platform
>> >>   data field. (for-linus)
>> >> b) Add the WM8903 platform data field. (for 2nd pull request)
>> >>
>> >> However, my board patches also rely on I2C platform data. There was
>> >> some discussion that Tegra's for-next would merge in Ben's I2C Tegra
>> >> branch and hence pick up the new platform header from that.
>> >>
>> >> Olof also mentioned he'd submit a patch through his branch to add all
>> >> the I2C bus registrations for all boards once the I2C branch was
>> >> merged.
>> >>
>> >> However, I haven't seen any traction on this. Is this still happening?
>> >> If not, I'll have to split my patch slightly differently, to also pull
>> >> out the I2C registrations into the second patch.
>> >>
>> >>> I'm going to be out of the office next week, so this is probably the
>> >>> last chance to get features in 2.6.39.
>> >>
>> >> I'm a little out-of-touch here, but this confuses me; 2.6.38 hasn't
>> >> been released yet, and hence the 2-week merge window isn't open yet.
>> >> And even then, I think we can submit small pull requests for stuff
>> >> like this throughout 2.6.39's rc releases. I'm not why right now is
>> >> the last chance to get stuff in.
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> nvpublic
>
>
>

Olof, are you going to take these or should I?
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