Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 10:21:47 -0700
From: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Pali =?utf-8?B?Um9ow6Fy?= <pali.rohar@gmail.com>,
        Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ADP1653 board code for Nokia RX-51
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* Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> [130921 05:45]:
> Hi!
> 
> > > > > > > --- /dev/null
> > > > > > > +++ b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-rx51-camera.c
> > > > > 
> > > > > [...]
> > > > > 
> > > > > > Ping, can you review this patch v2?
> > > > > 
> > > > > I don't think Tony will accept any new board stuff for
> > > > > RX-51/N900. See for example:
> > > > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=137629626213187&w=2
> > > > > 
> > > > > There should be initial Nokia N900 DTS file in 3.12-rc1, and
> > > > > we should continue converting this board fully to DT.
> > > > 
> > > > That's not reasonable. N900 is pretty far away from working
> > > > with device tree. Yes, I was able to get some bits merged,
> > > > but that should not be excuse to halt other N900 development.
> > > > 									Pavel
> > > 
> > > Right. So Tony, will you accept future patches for board files?
> > 
> > Only fixes to board-*.c files please unless there's a _really_
> > good reason to make things more complex with the platform data.
> > Let's not make the DT conversion any more complex than it
> > already is.
> > 
> > Getting things working with DT for the devices is pretty trivial
> > in most cases. And we can also still initialize the legacy devices
> > using platform data the same way as earlier.
> 
> Well... It was quite a struggle to get video working with device tree
> in 3.10, and now it is broken in 3.12-rc1, again.

Hmm didn't Aaro reply that you just need to change the Kconfig
option for the panel to fix it?
 
> "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in
> the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at
> least twice as fast as that! "

True at least for reading the mailing lists :)

Regards,

Tony
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