From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754277Ab1JGUCr (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Oct 2011 16:02:47 -0400 Received: from perches-mx.perches.com ([206.117.179.246]:54571 "EHLO labridge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754089Ab1JGUCq (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Oct 2011 16:02:46 -0400 Message-ID: <1318017765.11045.12.camel@Joe-Laptop> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] omap: dmtimer: convert printk to pr_err From: Joe Perches To: Russell King - ARM Linux Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?V=EDctor?= Manuel =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=E1quez?= Leal , Tony Lindgren , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Timo Teras , linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:02:45 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20111007195714.GB26805@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <20111006201827.GT6324@atomide.com> <1317977417-17874-1-git-send-email-vjaquez@igalia.com> <20111007092243.GC27281@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <1318009239.1644.38.camel@Joe-Laptop> <20111007191822.GA26805@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <1318016901.11045.9.camel@Joe-Laptop> <20111007195714.GB26805@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.0- Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 20:57 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 12:48:21PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > I think it needs to be done subsystem by subsystem, > > arch by arch, as maintainers accept. > Agreed - but doing one instance here, maybe another instance somewhere > else, and come the merge window having several of these patches > scattered around with no real coherent "this is what we're doing, and > its all done for this bit of the tree" kind of story is not the way to > do it. > It would be good to get core code done, or a sub-arch, and then say > "we're not accepting any patch which re-introduces the problem"... > It's a little late in the cycle for that now though. Well, if you want it done for arch/arm, just let me know when it would be convenient for you and I'll do them all as a single patch.