From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Laurent Pinchart Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 09:12:25 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] R-Car Gen2 removal and cleanups Message-Id: <1897514.grQunSIn4v@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 16:44:39 Simon Horman wrote: > On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 09:32:49AM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > 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. > > My recollection is the same as yours :) > > BTW, do you want to the lager patch on top of Geert's patch > to remove console= from bootargs? If so feel free to repost the series > with his patch included. I've rebased Geert's patch and applied it to my tree (git://linuxtv.org/pinchartl/fbdev.git arch/next), but I'm also fine if you prefer Geert's patch to go in first. > >> >>> 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