Re: nvec TODO

[Russell King - ARM Linux <linux-lFZ/pmaqli7XmaaqVzeoHQ@public.gmane.org>]

On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 01:28:28PM +0200, Marc Dietich wrote:
> Hi Russell, Greg,
> 
> > Greg,
> > 
> > A small patch to add something to this staging drivers todo list which
> > I just noticed.  BTW, why isn't there any easy way to find a list of
> > addresses to copy against stuff in staging?  I hope I have everyone...
> 
> the Tegra/Nvidia/Google people are not involved in this driver development. The 
> hw was used in the first generation Android devices only and became kind of 
> obsolete (in kernels > .32 released by NV), but still there are a handfull older 
> devices using it. That's why some community people (ml: 
> ac100-oU9gvf+ajcQ97yFScArB1dHuzzzSOjJt@public.gmane.org, irc:#ac100 on freenode) try to port it to newer 
> kernels. 

That reinforces my point - there's no way to know who should be copied
with mails for stuff in staging.

> > The note is about something which should be easy enough to fix by people
> > who know the Tegra stuff (it probably involves changes outside of this
> > driver to fix.)
> 
> I'll post some update to the driver soon (V2 of the patches I already submitted, 
> http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-July/018751.html). 
> In fact, the clock stuff should be done by the i2c-tegra driver and not in nvec 
> itself. I hope I have time to prepare a corresponding patch for the next merge 
> window (kernel 3.2). So the patch below is not needed anymore. 

Good news.

Thanks.