From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: holler@ahsoftware.de (Alexander Holler) Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 19:45:59 +0200 Subject: [GIT PULL] DaVinci fixes for v3.12-rc In-Reply-To: References: <523AD060.8000504@ti.com> <523BE5CA.3010601@ahsoftware.de> Message-ID: <523C89D7.4090006@ahsoftware.de> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Am 20.09.2013 19:40, schrieb Olof Johansson: > Hi, > > On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 11:06 PM, Alexander Holler wrote: >> Am 19.09.2013 19:48, schrieb Olof Johansson: >>> Hi Sekhar, >>> >>> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 3:22 AM, Sekhar Nori wrote: >>>> The following changes since commit 272b98c6455f00884f0350f775c5342358ebb73f: >> ... >> >>>> 3) A patch to complete the DT support for EDMA. Without >>>> this patch, the DT support for EDMA cannot be used. >>>> There are no in-tree DT users of EDMA currently but >>>> nevertheless the patch fixes a previously incomplete >>>> implementation. >>> >>> Finishing incomplete work is not a fix, especially if the users aren't >>> in-tree. The other patches are just fine to include though. >> >> It fixes problems for all people which are not using the provided DT's >> but using edma in their own DT. So I don't understand your arguing as DT >> got introduced to not only support in-tree configs. It clearly fixes >> problems. > > Right, that was the smaller part of the argument. The bigger is: > Completing a feature is not a fix. If the whole feature didn't make it > in for a release, then the rest goes into the next release. Bureaucrazy at it's best. Regards, Alexander Holler