From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753513Ab3ALNgU (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jan 2013 08:36:20 -0500 Received: from 4.mo2.mail-out.ovh.net ([87.98.172.75]:43583 "EHLO mo2.mail-out.ovh.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753232Ab3ALNgT (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jan 2013 08:36:19 -0500 Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 14:34:50 +0100 From: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD To: Olof Johansson Cc: Mark Brown , Nicolas Ferre , voice.shen@atmel.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-sound@vger.kernel.org X-Ovh-Mailout: 178.32.228.2 (mo2.mail-out.ovh.net) Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2 v2] at91/ssc: fixes on ASoC tree for 3.8 Message-ID: <20130112133450.GF7360@game.jcrosoft.org> References: <20130111193948.GA8677@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> <20130111195331.GA2533@quad.lixom.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130111195331.GA2533@quad.lixom.net> X-PGP-Key: http://uboot.jcrosoft.org/plagnioj.asc X-PGP-key-fingerprint: 6309 2BBA 16C8 3A07 1772 CC24 DEFC FFA3 279C CE7C User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Ovh-Tracer-Id: 7410673188751977263 X-Ovh-Remote: 213.251.161.87 (ns32433.ovh.net) X-Ovh-Local: 213.186.33.20 (ns0.ovh.net) X-OVH-SPAMSTATE: OK X-OVH-SPAMSCORE: -100 X-OVH-SPAMCAUSE: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrfeehledrhedvucetufdoteggodetrfcurfhrohhfihhlvgemucfqggfjnecuuegrihhlohhuthemuceftddtnecusecvtfgvtghiphhivghnthhsucdlqddutddtmd X-Spam-Check: DONE|U 0.5/N X-VR-SPAMSTATE: OK X-VR-SPAMSCORE: -100 X-VR-SPAMCAUSE: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrfeehledrhedvucetufdoteggodetrfcurfhrohhfihhlvgemucfqggfjnecuuegrihhlohhuthemuceftddtnecusecvtfgvtghiphhivghnthhsucdlqddutddtmd Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 11:53 Fri 11 Jan , Olof Johansson wrote: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 07:39:49PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 10:52:19AM -0800, Olof Johansson wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 6:08 AM, Nicolas Ferre wrote: > > > > > > > This material was designed to enter Mark's fixes queue, but as discussed with > > > > Olof, we can imagine merging everything through arm-soc or split the series (of > > > > 2 patches) and let them progress upstream separated (option that I do not like > > > > even if I know that the consequences are not so dramatic). > > > > So please, Olof, if you feel confortable with this series, tell us what you > > > > prefer and we will make our best to make this material go forward... > > > > > You're setting yourself up for awkward merges. The driver change is > > > strongly dependent on the device tree change by failing probe unless > > > the device tree update is there, while before this patch, it still > > > worked. > > > > This is partly my fault for getting grumpy about adding the bolier plate > > code without error checking - overall Linus' change to do the get in the > > core seems like the most sane approach here. > > > > > But to be honest, I don't think this is a fix, it's a feature that you > > > just didn't include in time for the merge window. I don't really see > > > them as appropriate 3.8 material at this point. > > > > Jean-Christophe has been most insistent that pinctrl support is now > > manadatory for all AT91 systems using device tree. > > That's a noble goal but enforcing it early gives everyone a lot of pain, and > quite honestly doesn't make sense. During transition it's better to be lenient > and allow both old and new methods (without breakage), unless it causes > significant extra churn. except here we can not as the same ip manage gpio & pinctrl so no choice we need to do the switch at once and that's why we wait 1 more release to do the switch so erveryone can play with it before Best Regards, J.