From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Laurent Pinchart Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 07:32:49 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] R-Car Gen2 removal and cleanups Message-Id: <1471311.k3jFKy5IOE@avalon> List-Id: References: <1417538146-23350-1-git-send-email-laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com> In-Reply-To: <1417538146-23350-1-git-send-email-laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org Hi Simon, On Thursday 04 December 2014 15:47:31 Simon Horman wrote: > On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 11:44:29PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > On Tuesday 02 December 2014 22:06:49 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > >> On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > >>> This patch series remove the Lager legacy and reference board files > >>> from the kernel. It builds upon two patches previously posted by > >>> Magnus and updated to removal left-overs. > >>> > >>> The rationale for the change, beside keeping the ARM SoC maintainers > >>> happy, is that the Lager board is now correctly supported using DT > >>> boot and generic code only, so there's no reason to keep board files > >>> along. > >> > >> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven > >> > >>> The second reason to repost the patches is to include a pet peeve of > >>> mine that I've been carrying in my local branches for too long. The > >>> last two patches update the Lager and Koelsch DT files to finally > >>> rename the two serial ports to ttySC0 and ttySC1. > >> > >> I'm not opposed to this change. > > IIRC, this has been a contentious issue in the past. > I will confer with Magnus to make sure we are all happy with this change. If I recall correctly the major issue back then was synchronization of serial port names between legacy and DT boot. Now that Lager and Koelsch legacy have been removed, there should at least be no synchronization issue anymore. I'll wait for feedback from Magnus of course. > >>> The patches are targeted at v3.20, as they depend on the "ARM: > >>> shmobile: > >>> lager: Remove DU platform device" patch scheduled for merge in > >>> v3.19-rc1 through the DRM tree. > >> > >> Given the issues with armadillo-legacy (and perhaps some other -legacy > >> platform(s)?) in -next (https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/12/2/339), we may > >> have to accelerate kicking out -legacy... > > > > We've known for a long time that -legacy is doomed. Now it's a question of > > priorities :-) > > Zero argument there. -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart