On Tue, 07 Jun 2016, Peter Griffin wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 06 Jun 2016, Lee Jones wrote: > > > Phasing out generic reset line requests enables us to make some better > > decisions on when and how to (de)assert said lines. If an 'exclusive' > > line is requested, we know a device *requires* a reset and that it's > > preferable to act upon a request right away. However, if a 'shared' > > reset line is requested, we can reasonably assume sure that placing a > > device into reset isn't a hard requirement, but probably a measure to > > save power and is thus able to cope with not being asserted if another > > device is still in use. > > > > In order allow gentle adoption and not to forcing all consumers to > > move to the API immediately, causing administration headache between > > subsystems, this patch adds some temporary stand-in shim-calls. This > > will ease the burden at merge time and allow subsystems to migrate over > > to the new API in a more realistic time-frame. > > Is the intention that this series will be taken into the next -rc? > > As the introduction of shared resets in reset subsystem has caused regressions > on STi platforms. Yes, which is why it has a Fixes: tag. -- Lee Jones Linaro STMicroelectronics Landing Team Lead Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
