From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tony Lindgren Subject: Re: Criteria for merging new board support files Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 23:51:04 -0700 Message-ID: <20120713065102.GJ1122@atomide.com> References: <20120712204710.GA3850@renkinjitsu.usine.8d.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org ([204.13.248.72]:61025 "EHLO mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752960Ab2GMGvF (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jul 2012 02:51:05 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120712204710.GA3850@renkinjitsu.usine.8d.com> Sender: linux-omap-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org To: Raphael Assenat Cc: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org Hi, * Raphael Assenat [120712 14:28]: > Hello, > > We have designed a board based on the AM3505 to use in one of our products, > an unattended payment terminal. I am wondering if it would be meaningful > to clean up and submit our patches to add support for our board in the > mainline. > > As this board is neither a development/evm platform nor a mass produced > consumer product, not many users, if ever, will want to customize > their kernel. Therefore I am not sure what the advantages for the > community at large would be... Besides our code serving as yet another > board file example. > > What is the current maintainer position regarding new board support files? > Were submissions from people in the same situation ever merged? Do you think > it worth the effort to clean up and submit our board support files? We're moving towards device tree based booting and the board-*.c files will be going away except for board-generic.c. No new board-*.c files will be merged. I've been carrying some board-*.c files in the testing-board branch, but we're now at a point where the devicetree based booting should work for simple cases. Some parts are of course still missing. So I suggest you just provide a new .dts file for your board. Might be worth posting the board-*.c file anyways so people can use that if they want to. Regards, Tony