Re: [PATCH] watchdog: another ioremap() fix

[Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>]

* David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> [080918 13:11]:
> On Thursday 18 September 2008, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > What I say to Tony: do you want OMAP to be merged into mainline, or
> > don't you.  If you do, do _not_ accept this patch but get the changes
> > already in your tree for omap_wdt.c up to Wim, and then get this patch
> > there.  Provide the carrot by getting the driver up to date in mainline,
> > and the stick by only accepting patches for this driver once they've
> > been acked by Wim.  Explicitly ask Wim to ack them for you.
> > 
> > Then you have one less driver to worry about constantly being out of
> > date with mainline.
> 
> That sounds like a plan.  One could go further and work
> something like the "stable" tree ... not merging into the
> OMAP tree until the patch is merged, or at least queued,
> for upstream.  Minimal exceptions, if any.  (And not for
> this watchdog!)
> 
> That should be workable for most drivers; sometimes with
> a few arch/arm/plat-omap/include/mach/*.h updates you may
> need to ack.  Things like CBUS support (no framework for
> that is upstream) are cases where it'd fail.
> 
> I'm not exactly in this particular loop except as a gadfly
> with relevant insight/background/experience, but I suspect
> that a basic goal *MUST* be to avoid having Tony and/or
> Russell in the loop unless it's unavoidable.  

Been offline few days, glad to see the watchdog updates moving forward :)

Yes I agree we should deal with drivers directly on the appropriate
mailing lists. And then have them fall downstream to l-o tree.

We can use l-o tree for testing and integration, but let's add
a new rule like Russell is suggesting: Let's get at least an ack from
the appropriate maintainer before we apply the patches into l-o tree.

And of course we've already moved quite a bit of the driver development
to the right mailing lists like USB (except ehci-hcd, grr) and audio.

Cheers,

Tony





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