Re: mvebu cpuidle and cpufreq branch handling for v3.17

[Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>]

On 07/19/2014 01:51 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Friday, July 18, 2014 07:07:40 PM Jason Cooper wrote:
>> Arnd, Olof, Kevin,
>>
>> I have two branches with the remaining mvebu SoC changes for v3.17.
>> They are mvebu/soc-cpuidle and mvebu/soc-cpufreq.  Each branch is
>> slightly problematic because both contain changes to their respective
>> code in drivers/.  To send the driver changes through the appropriate
>> subsystems would be a garish nightmare of branch on branch on branch.
>> Thankfully, the changes are isolated to drivers only mvebu uses, so
>> keeping it all together should cause minimal, if any, conflicts.
>>
>> I've requested Acks from the appropriate maintainers but as it's summer
>> I'm not confident that we'll receive those Acks in time for the arm-soc
>> cutoff (-rc6 -ish).
>>
>> As I see it, I could send arm-soc two topic branch pull requests, which
>> arm-soc would keep out separate on the remote chance of an objection.
>>
>> Or, I could wait for the Acks (the code has already been in -next for
>> several days), merge it into mvebu/soc, and send a, most likely, late
>> pull request for it.
>>
>> Which would you guys prefer?
>>
>> The cpuidle branch and ML link:
>>
>>    git://git.infradead.org/linux-mvebu.git mvebu/soc-cpuidle
>>
>>    https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1404913221-17343-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com
>>
>> The cpufreq branch and ML link:
>>
>>    git://git.infradead.org/linux-mvebu.git mvebu/soc-cpufreq
>>
>>    https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1404920715-19834-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com
>
> I'm generally OK with the cpufreq/cpuidle changes here in drivers/, but as I
> said in response to the cpuidle series, I'd like someone from the ARM side of
> things to look at those changes too.

I am currently in vacation. I will be back Monday and look at this patchset.

Thanks
   -- Daniel


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