Re: [PATCH v8 03/11] ARM: brcmstb: add debug UART for earlyprintk support

[Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 03:22:27PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 08/13/2014 03:16 PM, Olof Johansson wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> >>>> I noticed that you sent this to the patch system.  I asked Olof last
> >>>> night whether he had anything in arm-soc touching Kconfig.debug, and
> >>>> he does (a number of other platforms have updated it.)  This means
> >>>> that if I apply it to my tree, it may conflict, so I'm reluctant to
> >>>> take it.
> >>>
> >>> OK... Matt told me that such patches go through you. So which is it?
> >>> Should all Kconfig.debug patches go through the arm-soc route?
> >>
> >> How should this get in? Should I rebase/resend through Matt and
> >> arm-soc? Or can you pick this up as-is?
> > 
> > Kconfig.debug is something that we usually merge new platforms for
> > through arm-soc. The main exception has been release cycles when
> > Russell has been doing major surgery on the file (one of those was a
> > few releases ago), where we've backed off to avoid conflicts.
> > 
> > That's been the assumed arrangement from our side at least, we haven't
> > had anything more formal than that.
> > 
> > So, go ahead and send it through us -- if we end up having a cycle
> > where we can't apply it we can send it over to Russell for you.
> 
> It looks like somehow, this patch got lost somewhere in the submission
> process. Is it too late to accept it for 3.17 if we were to re-submit it?

I already resubmitted this weeks ago:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/348468

No comment / action so far.

Brian