Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933824Ab1CaBiD (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Mar 2011 21:38:03 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:60872 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933810Ab1CaBh7 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Mar 2011 21:37:59 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20110317183048.GW7258@atomide.com> <20110318101512.GA15375@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <201103301906.42429.arnd@arndb.de> <20110331001502.GB6680@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:37:09 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] omap changes for v2.6.39 merge window To: Bill Gatliff Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux , Arnd Bergmann , Tony Lindgren , David Brown , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, Nicolas Pitre , Catalin Marinas Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 810 Lines: 21 On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Bill Gatliff wrote: > > I'm not sure this metric is completely fair to ARM. ?If you want to > level the field, I think you have to divide each result by the number > of SoC's But that's the problem with ARM. Hardware companies that do one-off stuff, with no sense of compatibility. And calling it an "opportunity" is just stupid. There's nothing good about causing extra work just because ARM hasn't had the sense to standardize on one (or a couple) of interrupt controllers etc. Linus -- 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/