Re: Linux 3.3-1 out - merge window closed

[Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>]

On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:18:25 +0000, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> On Monday 23 January 2012, Grant Likely wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:17:46AM +0200, Ohad Ben-Cohen wrote:
> >
> > > I realize there's a slim chance to get it merged at this point, but I
> > > do think that both remoteproc and rpmsg are not so scary:
> > > 
> > > * The code is completely self contained, and the only few external
> > > places it changes amount to grabbing a new virtio id (which is
> > > Acked-by Rusty) and some OMAP init platform code (which is Acked-by
> > > Tony). People who aren't explicitly using it won't notice it's there;
> > > even its Kconfig entries get selected automatically when relevant
> > > (i.e. only on OMAP4 at this point) and would never show up otherwise.
> > 
> > Hi Linus,
> > 
> > I'd also like to see this merged.  Rather than going off and inventing
> > something completely new, Ohad has built on the existing virtio
> > infrastructure to implement IPC between CPUs and DSPs running
> > different operating environments.  This is a strong step in the
> > RightDirection(tm) in my opinion and such behaviour should be
> > encouraged.  :-)
> > 
> 
> Agreed. I had reviewed earlier versions of this and they looked very
> good.

Plus I don't think delay will help in any way; it'll just go in as-is,
one merge window later...

Thanks,
Rusty.