From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Brown Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 5/6] x86: add CONFIG_ARM_AMBA, selected by STA2X11 Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 12:05:21 +0100 Message-ID: <20120703110520.GI29030@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> References: <4FECB95D.7010200@zytor.com> <20120701104401.GA4352@mail.gnudd.com> <2b797c83-6a3c-4051-841a-a4cfa9d1cae1@email.android.com> <201207021658.27755.arnd@arndb.de> <20120702180518.GA25995@sirena.org.uk> <4FF1E37D.7050103@zytor.com> <20120702183324.GA29030@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> <4FF1F987.3030501@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="WHz+neNWvhIGAO8A" Return-path: Received: from opensource.wolfsonmicro.com ([80.75.67.52]:44925 "EHLO opensource.wolfsonmicro.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751445Ab2GCLFX (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jul 2012 07:05:23 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4FF1F987.3030501@zytor.com> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Arnd Bergmann , Alessandro Rubini , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, giancarlo.asnaghi@st.com, alan@linux.intel.com, linux@arm.linux.org.uk, x86@kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org --WHz+neNWvhIGAO8A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 12:41:59PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 07/02/2012 11:33 AM, Mark Brown wrote: > >> Last I saw I saw a patch to that effect, asked what the benefit > >> was, and got no answer. > > Are you positive about that? I don't recall you replying any of > > the times I sent out the patch and my mail archive isn't > > contradicting me either. > I said last time I saw a patch to that effect; it might not have been > from you. I might not have seen yours for whatever reason (including > losing it on my end.) I'm kind of surprised anyone else has been sending stuff (unless mine got resent by someone else, I did include it in some of my serises for the clock API); I know I've posted mine several times now. In any case, I hope the mail you're replying to answers your question about why it's useful. In general I'd probably go further and say that (at least when a generic implementation is available) there should be a very good reason for not enabling an API on an architecture rather than the other way around. --WHz+neNWvhIGAO8A Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJP8tHWAAoJEBus8iNuMP3d5sUP/RGmlvwsVzYuojMtOmKiG5Ce ipKXHvQWqnuFbMcW0ZgauSYVy8vq4C1R/gjkAB9Kt/2zGWPWfTozVk8Qazti+WPK ASgxVmpX4vY2ArzXMuxnMPuMoINS2kM9G2te1Fi4iyauuuSZH0Fnue0FNkAQu4lN T+/fLBJJg2ONl+XjTPsXqSmKeCuBzZJayLDWoUjdNnzBMSCEB0dCQxETxUXMdOVz xIVBTki/His8rhgSkrZ4p0vvNayJYfqPLCLv7vnfYnt6kyGahUsUmMWgU6Fglzc5 +AiotwP5s7FkkmP8x6S8oCQdG2ouzy1YPN9oKQi0KH7yJhj1wQeq5MMTNbY/uuLo 37Ikj3OYp2mD6WT/oMSU4fIe5/TNDa/tqb4qZUafo8pbDtb7K5cYNVA1fTukEkmq w4GlQ/oJy6G+kHcVbzUCST8qxy6ENnNljafgGFxFEorDPZdnPfL9FYkjIgWz4/by GuZU/yFbVHTAE1lLR2iZsN0rM5u9PQ0ozz8mJOxEKLC4VZDGc6KVg/tu30tgWhSl yqSQ3JmkNuCiW+FMdBaD7wwX6fRSOhBs/7XYABrkpmL9dU9m01jb8svh1lIZYWAM yv6BriIm0Z0JJvCQagFrFPcnaeKCIOYkrFwJuorXw7KmwEXkw2uHXybNqhbrMOGN OV49/m5b+ukYwNADndAI =brpJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --WHz+neNWvhIGAO8A--