From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from dgt.com.pl (mail.dgt.com.pl [195.117.141.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 462A3679F3 for ; Mon, 6 Jun 2005 16:08:33 +1000 (EST) Received: from mail.dgt.com.pl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dgt.com.pl (Postfix) with SMTP id 1AF5557869 for ; Mon, 6 Jun 2005 08:08:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.7.66] (proxy.dgt.com.pl [::ffff:195.117.141.11]) by dgt.com.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A9D950458 for ; Mon, 6 Jun 2005 08:08:24 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <42A3E880.6030309@dgt.com.pl> Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 08:09:04 +0200 From: Wojciech Kromer MIME-Version: 1.0 To: undisclosed-recipients: ; Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------080404000807000706010502" Subject: [Fwd: Re: Getting ownership for various boards/platforms configs] List-Id: Linux on Embedded PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------080404000807000706010502 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------080404000807000706010502 Content-Type: message/rfc822; name="Re: Getting ownership for various boards/platforms configs" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Re: Getting ownership for various boards/platforms configs" Return-Path: Delivered-To: wojciech.kromer@dgt.com.pl Received: from mail.dgt.com.pl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dgt.com.pl (Postfix) with SMTP id B071D5795C for ; Fri, 3 Jun 2005 16:27:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: from dell2650.onz.com (onz.com [::ffff:67.121.61.113]) by dgt.com.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 162505785B for ; Fri, 3 Jun 2005 16:27:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by dell2650.onz.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5504D2B4159 for ; Fri, 3 Jun 2005 07:27:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dell2650.onz.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (dell2650.onz.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 05987-03 for ; Fri, 3 Jun 2005 07:27:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.101] (unknown [192.168.1.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by dell2650.onz.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B66E52B413C for ; Fri, 3 Jun 2005 07:27:40 -0700 (PDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) In-Reply-To: <429FFB53.2040106@dgt.com.pl> References: <429FFB53.2040106@dgt.com.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Allen Curtis Subject: Re: Getting ownership for various boards/platforms configs Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 07:27:41 -0700 To: Wojciech Kromer X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.622) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at onz.com If you are looking for maintainers, I will work on the PPC stuff. The #ifdef situation has been out of control for quite some time. I did attempt to consolidate the platform stuff. Some of this work did make it into the kernel. Are you talking about 2.6? I was about to work on the sysfs stuff which will go a long way to cleaning up the device drivers. BTW: the linuxppc-embedded list did not show in the reply list. Forward this if you want. >> One issue that comes up from time to time is knowing who to contact >> about some of the various boards that are supported for PPC. I've >> suggested in the past that we create a MAINTAINERS file in >> arch/ppc/platforms. I've started with a list of all the _defconfigs >> that we have and would like to see if we can get contacts for the >> boards. All this list is meant to be is a contact point. >> >> > There is another issue.. > > May I suggest to add one full-custom board? > There are a lot of changes to do inside uart,fec,fcc drivers with a lot > of #ifdefs, > just because different use of mpc resources on different boards. > Why it's not configured via menuconfig? > Another nice example is inside status_led.h... --------------080404000807000706010502--