Re: Is the OMAP patch process badly flawed?

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@blueyonder.co.uk>]

On 17/11/09 14:51, Gadiyar, Anand wrote:
> Sid Boyce wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>>>>
>>>> I would expect patches sent upstream would result in all the basics for
>>>> long established platforms to be fully covered. Appreciating that
>>>> development is quite fast paced with mods and supporting new platforms.
>>>> Could someone please enlighten me?
>>>
>>> Sid,
>>>
>>> Speaking purely for EHCI, this is now queued up in Greg's USB queue
>>> for upstream and will get merged in the next cycle.
>>>
>>> Until then, the linux-omap code does have working EHCI support
>>> on beagle, evm and the other boards. If you're cloning from
>>> gitorious, you're probably picking the wrong tree.
>>>
>>> - Anand
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Thanks, that explains a lot as I can't remember seeing those patches on
>> the linux-usb list for submission upstream.
>> What tree is best to clone?
> 
> 
> Not sure which is best - I suppose that depends on what all you need.
> The canonical linux-omap tree maintained by Tony is at [1].
> 
> For EHCI, Felipe sent the driver to Greg who queued it up for .33 [2].
> Tony lined up the board files and mach-omap2/usb-ehci.c in the for-next
> branch.
> 
> 
> 
> [1] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6.git
> [2] http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/gregkh-07-usb-2.6.32-rc6.patch
>  
> 

Thanks for the update and the patch. I downloaded the launchpad 2.6.31
kernel which I have currently running. Finally found one that outputs to
the LCD.
Regards
Sid.

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