From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: swarren@wwwdotorg.org (Stephen Warren) Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 10:17:01 -0600 Subject: [PATCH 51/97] ARM: l2c: remove platforms/SoCs setting early BRESP In-Reply-To: <20140429000224.GA31083@verge.net.au> References: <20140428192419.GV26756@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <20140429000224.GA31083@verge.net.au> Message-ID: <535FD07D.5070801@wwwdotorg.org> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 04/28/2014 06:02 PM, Simon Horman wrote: > On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 08:30:32PM +0100, Russell King wrote: >> Since we now automatically enable early BRESP in core L2C-310 code when >> we detect a Cortex-A9, we don't need platforms/SoCs to set this bit >> explicitly. Instead, they should seek to preserve the value of bit 30 >> in the auxiliary control register. >> >> Acked-by: Tony Lindgren >> Signed-off-by: Russell King > > I would prefer if this patch was broken out into individual patches > for each board or SoC file and that they were then picked up > by their respective platform maintainers. > > Likewise for patch 66/97. Although it is only for shmobile > I would prefer it broken out. There are far too many dependencies in this series to break out the board file patches to be merged separately; it'd take either a whole bunch of kernel releases to merge it all that way, or a twisty maze of tiny topic branches cross-merged all over the place. Neither option is realistic.