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From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Fscking OMAP
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 16:49:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150420154912.GW4027@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)

Guys,

If you're going to introduce a dependency on some infrastructure which
you absolutely require for booting, then _please_ ensure that the
configuration system is updated such that pre-existing kernel
configurations continue to work.

Don't leave it such that the infrastructure ends up returning -ENOSYS,
which then filters down into your SoC specific code, and aborts the
initialisation of critical infrastructure, leaving you with a totally
silent boot failure.

In this case, it's the addition of syscon to OMAP internals,
specifically in omap_control_init().

This is explicitly targetted at OMAP people, who have wasted much of
my day today investigating why their platforms no longer boot in DT
mode.

Thanks.

-- 
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according to speedtest.net.

             reply	other threads:[~2015-04-20 15:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-20 15:49 Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
2015-04-20 16:04 ` Fscking OMAP Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-04-20 16:25 ` Tony Lindgren
2015-04-20 17:14   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-04-20 17:20     ` Tony Lindgren

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