From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752575AbdEPKCy (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2017 06:02:54 -0400 Received: from pandora.armlinux.org.uk ([78.32.30.218]:44840 "EHLO pandora.armlinux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752531AbdEPKCw (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2017 06:02:52 -0400 Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 11:02:37 +0100 From: Russell King - ARM Linux To: Thomas Petazzoni Cc: Marcin Wojtas , Andrew Lunn , Jason Cooper , "jaz@semihalf.com" , Will Deacon , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nadavh@marvell.com, Rob Herring , Neta Zur Hershkovits , Tomasz Nowicki , Gregory =?iso-8859-1?Q?Cl=E9ment?= , Mark Rutland , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , Sebastian Hesselbarth Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] arm64: marvell: dts: fill MachiatoBin board description Message-ID: <20170516100236.GA22219@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> References: <1494890913-8360-1-git-send-email-mw@semihalf.com> <1494890913-8360-2-git-send-email-mw@semihalf.com> <20170515232825.GX22219@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> <20170516095027.GZ22219@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> <20170516115535.2faf86ec@free-electrons.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20170516115535.2faf86ec@free-electrons.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 11:55:35AM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, 16 May 2017 10:50:27 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > > > I can't see how you can say that when the branch contains support for > > SDHCI and ethernet. It obviously will collide, since it conflicts with > > the changes I have. > > Correct, but Marcin has submitted patches, and you haven't. As I said, give me a friggin chance. You know full well that I've been working on this, working with you and submitting patches. > > > The board is starting to get really popular and a lot has been happening > > > around it recently - missing bits like 'chosen' node or the interfaces > > > is pretty annoying. > > > > Given that features like SDHCI and basic ethernet support have only just > > been merged during the merge window, how about giving those who are > > supporting the platform some time to organise their trees and get patches > > out there, rather than cutting across those who have put considerable > > effort into the platform already, or working with those who have. > > I believe if you say that, it's because you don't know how much work > Marcin is doing behind the scenes on supporting Marvell platforms, and > not only at the Linux kernel level. Maybe Marcin doesn't know how much work I'm doing supporting this board? > > The whole Armada 8k support is all very new, and there's still lots of > > fundamental bits that are missing - pinmux and gpio are the two biggest > > ones. > > > > I've already put effort into cleaning up the mvebu pinmux code (already > > merged) so that we can cleanly merge the pinmux support, but both of > > these are a sticking point with free-electrons - they have a view on > > how it should be represented in DT which does not fit with the current > > orion-gpio usage, nor with the "system controller" being in drivers/clk. > > Grégory Clement has been working on this, and he has a patch series > almost ready to submission. You've seen my patches, because I've sent them to you in the past. > > The code which I have in my tree is correct for the Armada 8k hardware > > (which has some weirdness about which gpios on each CP110 appear to the > > external world - some are used for inter-CP110 communication and must > > not be exposed) so any additional work should be based on the code in > > my tree. > > No, there is no rule like this in the kernel community. Whatever is in > your private tree does not matter. Until it gets submitted, it doesn't > exist, and nobody is forced to base its work on top of your > unknown/private trees. It _has_ been submitted - a few months ago - so you're talking rubbish here. You just need to check your mailbox. -- RMK's Patch system: http://www.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/ FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: currently at 9.6Mbps down 400kbps up according to speedtest.net.