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From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Updated mach-types update
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 11:41:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110320114137.GD16646@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110320110322.GC16646@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 11:03:22AM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> Some may notice that the mach-types update in my tree has been replaced
> by a new update to the file, but with a difference:
> 
>  arch/arm/tools/mach-types | 2406 ++-------------------------------------------
>  1 files changed, 89 insertions(+), 2317 deletions(-)
> 
> It deletes a lot of entries.
> 
> For a while now, I've been running a script each day after a pull from
> mainline which updates a flag in the machine database indicating whether
> an entry has existed in mainline at any point in time.  The database also
> tracks the time which the last change made to any entry.
> 
> Coupling these two bits of data together means that we can select entries
> from the machine database which are or have been in mainline, and which
> have been updated within the last twelve months.  The above file reflects
> that, and reduces the file down to 1090 lines (including header).
> 
> What this means is that any platform in the machine database which has not
> been submitted to mainline for 12 months since it was registered will be
> automatically dropped from the file, and the platform maintainer will need
> to either talk to me to get it reinstated before submission, or update the
> entry in some way to 'freshen' it.
> 
> This does have the potential to go wrong if people start randomly changing
> the format of how they write the MACHINE_START() macro.  If it's not found
> by:
> 
> grep -rh --exclude=include --include='*.c' MACHINE_START arch/arm |
>  grep -v '^#' | sed "s@[^(]*(\([^,]*\).*@ ('\1')@;2,\$s@^@,@"
> 
> (which generates a subset of SQL) then it won't be kept.  In other words,
> one line containing _at least_ this is the safest way:
> 
> MACHINE_START(NAME,
> 
> but this definitely won't work:
> 
> MACHINE_START(
> 	NAME,
> 	"Gobovision's Funky Platform")

Note that OMAP references machine_is_omap2evm() yet this has never been
merged.

arch/arm/plat-omap/include/plat/uncompress.h:

                DEBUG_LL_OMAP2(1, omap2evm);

so this entry needs to be removed.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-20 11:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-20 11:03 Updated mach-types update Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-03-20 11:41 ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
2011-03-24 17:59   ` Tony Lindgren
2011-05-13 11:54     ` Tony Lindgren
2011-05-13 12:19       ` Jarkko Nikula
2011-05-13 14:40         ` [PATCH] omap: Remove support for omap2evm (Re: Updated mach-types update) Tony Lindgren
2011-05-14 16:30           ` Mark Brown
2011-05-16 13:45           ` Liam Girdwood
2011-05-13 14:53       ` Updated mach-types update Tomi Valkeinen
2011-03-21 22:41 ` Detlef Vollmann
2011-03-21 23:10   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-03-21 23:33     ` Detlef Vollmann
2011-03-22 13:19 ` Domenico Andreoli
2011-03-22 19:30   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-03-23  9:31     ` Domenico Andreoli
2011-03-23 16:37     ` H Hartley Sweeten
2011-03-26 22:52 ` Colin Cross
2011-03-26 23:14   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-03-28 18:00     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-03-28 18:02       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-05-21  1:35 ` Jaya Kumar
2011-05-22  9:11   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-05-23 14:52     ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-05-23 14:59       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-05-23 15:10         ` Mark Brown
2011-05-23 15:33           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-05-23 16:39             ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-05-24 11:00               ` Jaya Kumar
2011-05-24 11:51                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-27 12:20               ` Mark Brown

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