From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tony Lindgren Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE:RFC] convert OMAP to use clkdev Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 11:01:36 -0800 Message-ID: <20090124190130.GC7172@atomide.com> References: <20090124120317.GA20593@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <20090124170408.GA7172@atomide.com> <20090124173824.GB27329@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <20090124183228.GB7172@atomide.com> <20090124184053.GC27329@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mho-01-bos.mailhop.org ([63.208.196.178]:55473 "EHLO mho-01-bos.mailhop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753972AbZAXTBi (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:01:38 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090124184053.GC27329@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Sender: linux-omap-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org To: Russell King - ARM Linux Cc: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org * Russell King - ARM Linux [090124 10:42]: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 10:32:29AM -0800, Tony Lindgren wrote: > > * Russell King - ARM Linux [090124 09:38]: > > > I had given up all hope of ever seeing the omap-clks1 branch in mainline. > > > Really. Until I saw a comment from you about apparantly wanting to see it > > > upstream. However, I still have a very big question whether any of this > > > work will ever reach mainline, especially since my experimental omap-clks1 > > > branch seems to have been broken up with random bits applied to your tree > > > with zero discussion with me. > > > > Paul has spent some time to merge some of your earlier omap-clks1 > > stuff into linux-omap tree. Manually merging them, there's really no > > other way to merge these changes. And Paul posted some of your earlier > > omap-clks1 patches to this list along with some other patches before > > they got merged. > > > > Anyways, too late to bitch. Merging this stuff is going to be a pain. > > And in the long run we need both Russell's and Paul's patches. So let's > > just figure out a way how we can get it all merged and into the mainline > > tree. > > If Paul sends me his changes, I'm entirely willing to do the dovetailing > work to get them merged with my changes. I already do that - what you > see as the changes between clks1 and clks2 were resorted this morning > before sending that email out. There's interdependencies between each > commit which make such operations non-trivial with traditional git usage. > I have my own scripts which make it possible to move, delete, and merge > a set of commits and patches together. > > Therefore, it probably makes sense for me to do it. Wow, that's the best thing I've ever seen during all the merge hells! I'll keep the clks-testing branch updated so we all can test it easily, and then we'll just flip linux-omap to use that branch for the clocks once everything is merged. Let me know if I can help with anything else! Tony