Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 14:29:13 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 0/2] J-Core timer support
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On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 07:56:09PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Daniel,
> 
> On Thu, 20 Oct 2016, Rich Felker wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 09:32:40AM +0200, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> > > Unfortunately it won't happen. v4.9-rc1 is already out. The driver will be
> > > in v4.10.
> > > 
> > > If you wanted patches merged for v4.9, they should have been merged in the
> > > downstream tree before v4.8-rc5, so they hit the upstream tree for v4.9's merge
> > > window.
> > 
> > I've been trying to get what's essentially the same patch merged since
> > before the 4.8 merge window. I would be more understanding if this
> > were something new that's not upstream, but broken support for the
> > hardware (that, from a user perspective, is a bug, since they can
> > select the target but then it doesn't boot) has already been in one
> > release due to missing core drivers, and the irq patches have already
> > been merged in this release (post-rc1 even).
> 
> It's hardware enablement and not a new feature, so it's fine to merge it
> now. I'll pick it up later tonight.

Thanks Thomas. Daniel, sorry if my above reply was harsh and thanks
again for all your help reviewing and getting this upstream.

Rich