Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752137AbbEGDBa (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 May 2015 23:01:30 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f179.google.com ([209.85.212.179]:38369 "EHLO mail-wi0-f179.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751718AbbEGDB2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 May 2015 23:01:28 -0400 Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 05:00:03 +0200 (CEST) From: Hans Ulli Kroll X-X-Sender: elektroman@T520.local To: Arnd Bergmann cc: Alexandre Belloni , Hans Ulli Kroll , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rtc-linux@googlegroups.com, Linus Walleij , Russell King , Felix Fietkau , Roman Yeryomin Subject: Re: [1/2] RTC: Add core rtc support for Gemini Soc devices In-Reply-To: <2694895.MomHLoCaoZ@wuerfel> Message-ID: References: <1292339307-14336-2-git-send-email-ulli.kroll@googlemail.com> <20150501234214.GK12076@piout.net> <2694895.MomHLoCaoZ@wuerfel> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LNX 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1974 Lines: 51 Hello On Wed, 6 May 2015, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Saturday 02 May 2015 01:42:14 Alexandre Belloni wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On 14/12/2010 at 16:08:26 +0100, Hans Ulli Kroll wrote : > > > driver for the rtc device > > > on Cortina Systems CS3516 or StormlinkSemi SL3516 aka Gemini SoC > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Hans Ulli Kroll > > > > This driver has never been merged and the platform doesn't seem to be > > active anymore. Is there still any interest in getting this driver > > mainlined? > > > > Only tree wide cleanups happened in mach-gemini since end of 2010, the > > listed git repository (git://git.berlios.de/gemini-board) was on berliOS > > (closed since 2011) and the sourceforge mirror seems empty. Is there > > still interest in keeping that platform in the mainline? > > As far as I know, the platform is still used by a number of people, > and is supported by OpenWRT. The reason we haven't seen updates is that > Ulli has been mostly absent from upstream development, and we haven't > had any other person step up as maintainer. > > I have a patch to convert the platform to ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM, and > the code doesn't really get in the way otherwise. > > As far as I'm concerned, we should just merge all the patches from > http://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt.git;a=tree;f=target/linux/gemini/patches-3.18 y> > We should also try to find a maintainer that can respond to patches > in a timely manner. If Ulli has time for that again, that would be great, > otherwise I think we should find someone from OpenWRT to take over. > > Arnd > I'm back in busyness. Currently me dev device is right next to me. I moved some time ago and haav to find it in some 'hidden' box. Ulli -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/