From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Olof Johansson Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2015 00:27:50 +0000 Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Third Round of Renesas ARM Based SoC Fixes for v3.19 Message-Id: List-Id: References: <20150202002423.GB29383@verge.net.au> In-Reply-To: <20150202002423.GB29383@verge.net.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Simon Horman wrote: > On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 05:30:32PM -0800, Olof Johansson wrote: >> Simon, >> >> >> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Simon Horman >> wrote: >> > Hi Olof, Hi Kevin, Hi Arnd, >> > >> > Please consider these third round of Renesas ARM based SoC fixes for v3.19. >> > >> > This pull request is based on the previous round of >> > such requests, tagged as renesas-soc-fixes2-for-v3.19, >> > which I have already sent a pull-request for. >> > >> > >> > This fixes a regression in the r8a7790 and r8a73a4 SoCs due to >> > 9a1091ef0017c40a ("irqchip: gic: Support hierarchy irq domain.") >> > which was included in v3.19-rc1. >> > >> > This pull-request is targeted at v3.19. r8a7790 patch in this pull-request >> > conflicts with the patch "ARM: shmobile: lager: Remove legacy board >> > support" which was included in the pull request "Renesas ARM Based SoC >> > Lager Board Removal for v3.20" which you have pulled for v3.20. The >> > conflict occurs because board-lager.c is removed in that patch whereas >> > this series updates that file. >> > >> > In other words, this series fixes board code for the lager/r8a7790 for v3.19 >> > which is scheduled for removal in v3.20. >> > >> > >> > The following changes since commit f469cde20a7ee342070b4a459b6fce469a3186db: >> > >> > ARM: shmobile: r8a7779: Instantiate GIC from C board code in legacy builds (2015-01-17 09:28:41 +0900) >> > >> > are available in the git repository at: >> > >> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/horms/renesas.git tags/renesas-soc-fixes3-for-v3.19 >> > >> > for you to fetch changes up to 77cf5166f21c3b73b04571311dc89a327424f594: >> > >> > ARM: shmobile: r8a7790: Instantiate GIC from C board code in legacy builds (2015-01-29 17:52:38 +0900) >> > >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------- >> > Third Round of Renesas ARM Based SoC Fixes for v3.19 >> > >> > * Instantiate GIC from C board code in legacy builds on r8a7790 and r8a73a4 >> > >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------- >> > Magnus Damm (2): >> > ARM: shmobile: r8a73a4: Instantiate GIC from C board code in legacy builds >> > ARM: shmobile: r8a7790: Instantiate GIC from C board code in legacy builds >> >> This is the third branch you've sent us with the same type of fixes. >> Was there a reason for why you couldn't have prepared all of them at >> the same time once it was known to be a systematic problem? > > Sorry about that, I agree this could have been batched up a bit better. > > The main reason that things occurred in this manner was that it took > us a while to fix the problem on all the effected SoCs and as a result > some of the fixes were ready quite some time ago while others only > became available quite recently. It seemed reasonable to me to push out the > fixes as they became available. Rather than risk all of the SoCs being > broken in v3.19. > > However, as this seems to be a bit of a pain point for you, I'll work > on batching things up more if we encounter such a wide-spread problem > again. We are also working on being able to catch regressions earlier > to try to avoid having to patching things up in this manner. It's not a pain point, and you can send them when ready, it just seemed odd that they kept trickling in over time. Which is why I brought it up. -Olof