From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Bill Gatliff <bgat@billgatliff.com>
Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>,
David Brown <davidb@codeaurora.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org,
Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] omap changes for v2.6.39 merge window
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:56:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimtO7vR2AQvJj1hHMqHCDqtoiJX_eENE9o3dPpV@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimS_8BnBz9MSdxYJVL6oreEpH=W61BsyuX2G+Xz@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Bill Gatliff <bgat@billgatliff.com> wrote:
>
> In the meantime, we have to live with the chips that exist and the
> ones coming down the pipe. Until ARM and all their licensees start
> consulting us on such matters, we'll just have to find a way to deal
> with what we're given after the fact.
Yes. But:
(a) we don't have to be stupid and think it's a good design and an
"opportunity" like you do.
and
(b) the kernel source code doesn't have to be the mess of code that
it is. Those things should be abstracted out somehow (and yes,
devicetree is hopefully one way)
I really don't understand why you seem to be arguing against trying to
fix a real problem, and why you also seem to be arguing that the messy
ARM situation is somehow "good". I find your attitude about the lack
of platform being "good" be to incomprehensibly stupid. There is
absolutely _no_ advantage to anybody from the crazy arm fragmentation.
I know, I know, a lot of companies make money supporting the whole
crazy mess. I guess that can make people confused and think that being
messy is good, and could be seen as an advantage.
But most embedded companies seem to have realized that they should
move up the stack, rather than worry about some crazy GPIO or stupid
driver details.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-31 1:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 159+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-17 18:30 [GIT PULL] omap changes for v2.6.39 merge window Tony Lindgren
2011-03-18 2:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-18 7:06 ` Tony Lindgren
2011-03-18 10:15 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-03-18 11:13 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2011-03-30 17:06 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-30 19:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-30 20:41 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-03-30 21:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-30 23:31 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-03-30 23:59 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-03-31 0:15 ` Tony Lindgren
2011-03-31 0:31 ` Bill Gatliff
2011-03-31 0:39 ` david
2011-03-31 3:17 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-03-31 3:29 ` Dave Airlie
2011-03-31 4:38 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-03-31 9:54 ` Alan Cox
2011-03-31 10:50 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-03-31 12:23 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2011-03-31 12:38 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-03-31 13:01 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-03-31 14:55 ` Bill Gatliff
2011-04-01 12:41 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-31 18:12 ` Sam Ravnborg
2011-03-31 18:17 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-03-31 18:34 ` Jesse Barnes
2011-03-31 13:54 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-03-31 17:22 ` david
2011-03-31 18:08 ` Koen Kooi
2011-03-31 5:05 ` david
2011-03-31 7:15 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-03-31 8:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-31 8:30 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-03-31 10:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-31 13:25 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-03-31 12:04 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-03-31 14:43 ` Kevin Hilman
2011-03-31 15:01 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-03-31 15:05 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-03-31 15:45 ` david
2011-03-31 15:23 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-31 16:58 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-03-31 18:23 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-03-31 18:55 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-04-01 11:32 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-31 20:35 ` Kevin Hilman
2011-04-01 11:29 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-04-01 7:32 ` Tomi Valkeinen
2011-04-01 11:22 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-04-01 11:55 ` Tomi Valkeinen
2011-04-01 12:07 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-04-01 12:15 ` Tomi Valkeinen
2011-03-31 16:03 ` david
2011-03-31 16:45 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-03-31 17:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-31 19:25 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-03-31 20:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-31 20:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-31 22:49 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-04-01 0:53 ` Mark Brown
2011-04-01 4:50 ` David Brown
2011-04-01 7:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-04-01 13:54 ` Arnd Bergmann
[not found] ` <4D95E112.4020400@vollmann.ch>
2011-04-01 14:59 ` Arnd Bergmann
[not found] ` <4D95EF8E.9080902@vollmann.ch>
2011-04-01 15:50 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-04-01 17:44 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-04-01 19:54 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-04-01 21:00 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2011-04-01 22:08 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-04-02 2:24 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-04-03 15:26 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-04-03 16:03 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-04-04 0:59 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-04-04 8:26 ` Marc Zyngier
2011-04-04 11:03 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-04-04 11:21 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-04-04 13:24 ` Marc Zyngier
2011-04-04 13:31 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-04-04 13:57 ` Marc Zyngier
2011-04-04 20:08 ` Linus Walleij
2011-04-05 6:40 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2011-04-05 7:45 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-04-05 14:15 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-04-05 22:16 ` Linus Walleij
2011-04-06 6:43 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2011-04-05 22:22 ` Linus Walleij
2011-04-06 6:41 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2011-04-05 7:30 ` Marc Zyngier
2011-05-26 13:38 ` Pavel Machek
2011-04-02 2:59 ` Mark Brown
2011-04-04 5:16 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2011-04-04 9:27 ` Nicolas Ferre
2011-04-01 21:10 ` Kevin Hilman
2011-04-01 21:32 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-04-01 21:51 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-04-03 22:18 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-04-04 0:14 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-04-04 2:49 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-04-01 15:27 ` Will Deacon
2011-04-01 15:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-04-01 16:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-03 22:26 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-04-05 23:19 ` Linus Walleij
2011-04-06 8:41 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-04-07 1:44 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-04-01 20:19 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-04-02 4:38 ` Richard Cochran
2011-04-02 3:27 ` Mark Brown
2011-04-06 6:11 ` Barry Song
2011-04-06 7:31 ` Bryan Wu
2011-03-31 21:40 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-03-31 17:56 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-03-31 18:34 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-03-31 19:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-31 8:09 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-03-31 10:49 ` Felipe Balbi
2011-03-31 18:00 ` Alexander Holler
2011-03-31 5:45 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-03-31 7:21 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-03-30 22:08 ` Tony Lindgren
2011-03-30 21:10 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-03-30 21:54 ` Tony Lindgren
2011-03-30 22:25 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-03-30 22:45 ` Tony Lindgren
2011-03-30 22:56 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-04-01 1:42 ` Mark Brown
2011-03-30 22:38 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-03-30 22:47 ` Tony Lindgren
2011-03-30 23:13 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-03-30 23:14 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-03-30 23:28 ` Tony Lindgren
2011-03-31 11:00 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-03-31 13:54 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-30 21:44 ` Tony Lindgren
2011-03-30 22:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-30 22:39 ` Tony Lindgren
2011-03-31 0:15 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-03-31 0:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-31 1:15 ` Bill Gatliff
2011-03-31 1:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-31 1:44 ` Bill Gatliff
2011-03-31 1:56 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2011-03-31 2:20 ` Bill Gatliff
2011-03-31 3:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-31 6:42 ` Olof Johansson
2011-03-31 6:56 ` David Brown
2011-03-31 11:27 ` Felipe Balbi
2011-03-31 13:39 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-03-31 4:09 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-03-31 10:11 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-03-30 21:07 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-03-30 22:14 ` Tony Lindgren
2011-04-01 1:17 ` Mark Brown
2011-04-01 14:17 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-18 3:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-03-18 7:09 ` Tony Lindgren
2011-03-18 8:06 ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2011-03-18 23:43 ` Tony Lindgren
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