Re: [PATCH V2 0/6] arm_smp_twd: mpcore_wdt: Fix MPCORE watchdog setup

Marc Zyngier
2011-07-06T12:39:47Z

On 06/07/11 13:27, Vitaly Kuzmichev wrote:
> Hi Marc,
>
> On 07/06/2011 02:05 PM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> [...]
>>> The series of patches is based on arm-platforms.git/local_timers_as_devices
>>> branch since it looks like that it is going to be merged into the mainline.
>>
>> Be careful here. This branch is a work in progress, likely to change
>> very quickly, contains code that has not been posted to the ML yet, and
>> will probably eat your pet for breakfast. As far as mainline merging is
>> concerned, there is still a long way to go (see the GIC consolidation
>> patches, on which the local_timers_as_devices branch relies).
>
> I understand.
> When do you plan to finish this job?
> Would not it be better to prepare two sets of patches: first one for
> linux-2.6/master with exported function, second for arm-platforms.git
> with removing exported function and replacing use of it by
> clk_get_rate(smp_twd) call?
> Is there a chance in this case, that my patches will be merged much
> earlier than yours?

Your guess is as good as mine. It all depends on people's bandwidth to
review long series of patches (the particular branch you used is a merge
of 3 different series), so I'd expect a smaller, less intrusive series
to make it quicker than my monster patch sets... ;-)

> If not, I will just rework patch 2/6 to remove exported and use only
> clock interface.

Make sure all TWD users are updated with the new clock before you merge
it then, or people are going to be surprised.

M.
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