From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752335Ab2DULkd (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Apr 2012 07:40:33 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.186]:65344 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750967Ab2DULkb convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Apr 2012 07:40:31 -0400 From: Arnd Bergmann To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: clps711x patchset Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 11:40:21 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/3.3.0-rc1; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Alexander Shiyan , Russell King , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1334999490-27177-1-git-send-email-shc_work@mail.ru> In-Reply-To: <1334999490-27177-1-git-send-email-shc_work@mail.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <201204211140.21564.arnd@arndb.de> X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:nS0ggCPJSp0ziI2ESrXLbB3QMPq14ZG0+t3XEv3pKPN iyGqEVR8FWgbGeZlfUwDE6zT7lTUP1vPnj9bPZ5vaR6tGTXGVv haZowQbRStpSJRRlkjc/1z0OQzFDroLwo/QSFWxyyULaesiOJa Bdn4ikTKPY/QMdXlwJvGrsRe7ti/be/2H3Ne7vU1eAcnSwmW1x qsH2iyCfF1e9o4VoYZuOwtEfxeZWgafsBgULvkTkOnrWa5HGTZ 2Z77l3z0pttDbA7bQaT+U4oQo3tLSg8xTljFGckw5phjAetNjk isEyA/N0xnjYLUISrBB2KfebdO3gy4sRJN5viwNJ3acvdUUR0g tASiqAwJ8k8xLqD8IQWw= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 21 April 2012, Alexander Shiyan wrote: > Hello. > This is patchset contains some cleanups and tricks for CLPS711X ARM target. > Please review and apply it to kernel tree. Comments are welcome :) Hi Alexander, This looks very nice overall, it's certainly good that you can manage to add support for a new soc with a net removal of lines. Note that with the current work split, it will be Olof and me who apply these patches in the end, not Russell, although he will probably have to something to say about the patches, too, since he has done almost all the changes to this platform in its more active times. >>From my reading of the git history, very little has happened in clps711x since about 2005, and we've never had a subarch maintainer for it. Are you interested in becoming the maintainer for it, or is this more a one-time effort on your side? I don't expect this to be much work for you, but it would be nice to have some person that can review the occasional patch touching multiple platforms. Do you have any plans to add more stuff to the platform, like additional SoCs or more board files? Do you see value in having it included in a single kernel image that runs on various different ARMv4/ARMv5 based Socs? I assume that the answer to all of these is 'no', but you plan to do them, we should talk about how to make that happen. Arnd From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann) Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 11:40:21 +0000 Subject: clps711x patchset In-Reply-To: <1334999490-27177-1-git-send-email-shc_work@mail.ru> References: <1334999490-27177-1-git-send-email-shc_work@mail.ru> Message-ID: <201204211140.21564.arnd@arndb.de> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Saturday 21 April 2012, Alexander Shiyan wrote: > Hello. > This is patchset contains some cleanups and tricks for CLPS711X ARM target. > Please review and apply it to kernel tree. Comments are welcome :) Hi Alexander, This looks very nice overall, it's certainly good that you can manage to add support for a new soc with a net removal of lines. Note that with the current work split, it will be Olof and me who apply these patches in the end, not Russell, although he will probably have to something to say about the patches, too, since he has done almost all the changes to this platform in its more active times. >>From my reading of the git history, very little has happened in clps711x since about 2005, and we've never had a subarch maintainer for it. Are you interested in becoming the maintainer for it, or is this more a one-time effort on your side? I don't expect this to be much work for you, but it would be nice to have some person that can review the occasional patch touching multiple platforms. Do you have any plans to add more stuff to the platform, like additional SoCs or more board files? Do you see value in having it included in a single kernel image that runs on various different ARMv4/ARMv5 based Socs? I assume that the answer to all of these is 'no', but you plan to do them, we should talk about how to make that happen. Arnd