[ANNOUNCE] new PM branch, rebased to current master

[ANNOUNCE] new PM branch, rebased to current master

[Kevin Hilman]

Hello,

I've just pushed the latest PM branch.  As usual, all the gory details
can be found on the wiki[1], but I'll highlight the important changes
here:

- PM branch getting smaller: The off-mode support and CPUidle support
  is now in mainline, so it's no longer in PM branch.

- omap3_pm_defconfig: now works an all supported boards.  I moved to
  the new DEBUG_LL_NONE so all boards should work out of the box without
  having to switch DEBUG_LL_UART* setup.

- voltage_off_while_idle: only modifies the VOLTCTRL reg during OFF
  transitions instead of when debugfs file is changed

Otherwise, this is primarily a rebase and inclusion of several
patches/fixes from the mailing list.

The biggest change is on how the PM branch will be managed.  As of
this release, the PM branch will no longer be continually rebased.
Instead, it will remain mergable.  I will be rebuilding the PM
branch in a similar way that Tony is now doing the master branch.

Kevin

[1] http://elinux.org/OMAP_Power_Management

Re: [ANNOUNCE] new PM branch, rebased to current master

[Kevin Hilman]

FYI...

I pushed an updated PM branch today, updated to latest omap/master.
Note that this time it was not a rebase, so should remain pull-able.

Important changes:

- dropped /sys/power/vdd* (as I've been saying I would for a while)
  From now on, use CPUfreq interface for controlling OPPs.

For the curious, you'll also notice many pm-* branches on my
linux-omap-pm repo now[1].

I've done a bunch of re-organizing/regrouping of patches into
groups/branches so they can be combined/collected/cleaned-up together
in order to reach mainline.

Here's a brief summary of the branches that are currently included in
the PM branch:

Ones that are almost ready for upstream:

pm-fixes: fixes to queue for 2.6.33-rc series
pm-t2: T2 script updates for 3430SDP 
pm-drivers: PM driver changes
pm-debug: Misc. PM debug 

Branches that need minor help before going upstream:
pm-gpio: GPIO off-mode support
pm-debobs: Debug observability support

Branches that need major help before going upstream:

pm-vc: collection of VC patches
pm-sr: collection of SR patches
pm-srf: collection of SRF patches
pm-remainder: leftovers that are dependent on VC/SR/SRF
pm-cpufreq: CPUfreq driver

There is also a work-in-progress branch for an updated OPP layer from
Nishanth named pm-wip-opp which is rebased to the current PM branch.
This will soon be merged into the PM branch, but I have a little
more-reorganizing to do first, this won't likely happen until early
Jan. since...

also, I'll be taking most of the next two weeks off, so expect slow
responses from me...

Kevin

[1] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/khilman/linux-omap-pm.git