Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758725Ab1DNK0K (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Apr 2011 06:26:10 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:45314 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758708Ab1DNK0I (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Apr 2011 06:26:08 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Common struct clk implementation, v14 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Russell King - ARM Linux Cc: Jeremy Kerr , Nicolas Pitre , Lorenzo Pieralisi , Vincent Guittot , linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, Sascha Hauer , Paul Mundt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dima Zavin , Saravana Kannan , Ben Dooks , Uwe =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kleine-K=F6nig?= , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org In-Reply-To: <20110414100048.GB1611@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <1299134429.100626.661279191478.0.gpush@pororo> <1302754859.2767.30.camel@pororo> <20110414100048.GB1611@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:25:05 +1000 Message-ID: <1302776705.28876.113.camel@pasglop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1067 Lines: 27 On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 11:00 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > > I will take it, but at the moment I'm rather unhappy about the response > from the community to Linus' complaint. > > If existing platform maintainers can show that moving over to this will > result in a net reduction of code under arch/arm, then that will be good. > What I don't want to see at the moment is arch/arm increasing in size as > a result of any change. We desperately need to see a reduction for the > next merge window. It's a chicken and egg... platform maintainers wait for you to take it and you wait for them to take it :-) It seems to me that this fits well into the category of "better common abstractions" that was discussed in the thread initiated by Linus as one of the ways to improve on the "clutter"... Cheers, Ben. -- 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/