Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755180AbbFRMl7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jun 2015 08:41:59 -0400 Received: from eusmtp01.atmel.com ([212.144.249.242]:32492 "EHLO eusmtp01.atmel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752232AbbFRMlt (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jun 2015 08:41:49 -0400 Message-ID: <5582BC50.1050801@atmel.com> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 14:40:48 +0200 From: Nicolas Ferre Organization: atmel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Bolle CC: Boris Brezillon , , Alexandre Belloni , Ludovic Desroches , Josh Wu , , Subject: Re: [PATCH] clk: at91: add generated clock driver References: <1434547409-12232-1-git-send-email-nicolas.ferre@atmel.com> <1434611556.2385.8.camel@x220> <20150618093344.7d486e97@bbrezillon> <55827606.7020908@atmel.com> <1434614090.2385.19.camel@x220> In-Reply-To: <1434614090.2385.19.camel@x220> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Originating-IP: [10.161.30.18] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1821 Lines: 48 Le 18/06/2015 09:54, Paul Bolle a écrit : > Hi Nicolas, > > On Thu, 2015-06-18 at 09:40 +0200, Nicolas Ferre wrote: >> I am in the process, with my colleagues, of building bricks for our >> upcoming SoC the sama5d2. So, the basic support for this chip will come >> in the next weeks and will select this Kconfig option. > > Perhaps that could be added, say below the --- marker in the patch. Yep, I should have added that, for sure! > Maybe I missed something to that effect. Anyhow, I didn't spot in the > patch that this was done deliberately. It had all the looks of a silly > mistake. > >> I'd like though that this matter of fact doesn't block this piece of >> code from being reviewed or even better merged in order to ease this new >> SoC landing... > > The other side of that is that the sama5d2 might never make it, or take > very long to make it, into mainline. And this would then end up being > yet another chunk of code adding no value to mainline. C'mon Paul, it's a simple chicken and egg problem... I have several options here: 1/ I send the clock patch early and benefit from early review and a comfortable landing strip 2/ I send the SoC early and have the very same remark concerning the "+ select HAVE_AT91_GENERATED" line in my patch 3/ I do it in several separated series... but at the price of additional synchronization between subsystems, additional dumb patches with so little benefit in my opinion. Ok, so I post sama5d2 early support today so that we can agree it's not necessary to add superfluous steps. Bye, -- Nicolas Ferre -- 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/