On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:21:04PM +0530, Nori, Sekhar wrote: > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 02:50:56, Greg KH wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 05:38:26PM +0530, Subhasish Ghosh wrote: > > > This patch adds support for the TTY compliant > > > Soft-UART device emulated on PRUSS. > > > > > > This patch depends on: > > > davinci: macro rename DA8XX_LPSC0_DMAX to DA8XX_LPSC0_PRUSS. > > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/615681/ > > This is already in mainline. Plus this patch > doesn't really seem to depend on this commit. > > > > davinci: changed SRAM allocator to shared ram. > > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/549351/ > > There should be no build time dependency with this patch > (the above patch just changes which pool of SRAM the > allocation happens from) > > But, this brings out an important dependency of the patch > calling platform specific sram allocator functions. There > has been SRAM allocator consolidation work done by Russell > and as a result the SRAM allocator API for DaVinci will > actually change. The driver should probably just get sram > space through platform data so that it doesn't depend on the > platform specific sram allocation function.
Ok, care to fix up the code then? > > Who is going to be applying these patches to the tree? > > > > Should this driver go through a davinci subtree because of these > > dependancies? > > No, driver and platform changes can be merged separately > if the above aspect is taken care of. Russell has been > pushing back on merging driver patches through his tree > unless absolutely required. That's fine, I'll take it through my tree then, care to resolve the above issue and resend it? thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ Davinci-linux-open-source mailing list Davinci-linux-open-source@linux.davincidsp.com http://linux.davincidsp.com/mailman/listinfo/davinci-linux-open-source