Re: [PATCH 51/97] ARM: l2c: remove platforms/SoCs setting early BRESP

Simon Horman
2014-04-30T06:13:15Z

On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 10:17:01AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> 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 <tony@atomide.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
> >
> > 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.

Understood, that seems reasonable to me.

For the shmobile portions this patch and 66/97.

Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@verge.net.au>