[GIT,PULL,for,3.8] pull request from upload/board in arch-pxa git tree

Hi Arnd & Olof,

Please help to pull upload/board branch from arch-pxa git tree.

Best Regards
Haojian

The following changes since commit 6f0c0580b70c89094b3422ba81118c7b959c7556:

  Linux 3.7-rc2 (2012-10-20 12:11:32 -0700)

are available in the git repository at:

  git://github.com/hzhuang1/linux.git upload/board

for you to fetch changes up to f534958f092bab25eadc25dbfa01657918239b77:

  ARM: pxa: use module_platform_driver macro (2012-10-26 17:25:15 +0800)

----------------------------------------------------------------
Paul Parsons (1):
      ARM: pxa2xx: Remove EXPERIMENTAL dependency from spi-pxa2xx driver

Srinivas Kandagatla (1):
      ARM: pxa: use module_platform_driver macro

 arch/arm/mach-pxa/pxa3xx-ulpi.c |   13 +------------
 drivers/spi/Kconfig             |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 07:59:54AM +0800, Haojian Zhuang wrote:
> Hi Arnd & Olof,
> 
> Please help to pull upload/board branch from arch-pxa git tree.
> 
> Best Regards
> Haojian
> 
> The following changes since commit 6f0c0580b70c89094b3422ba81118c7b959c7556:
> 
>   Linux 3.7-rc2 (2012-10-20 12:11:32 -0700)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
>   git://github.com/hzhuang1/linux.git upload/board
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to f534958f092bab25eadc25dbfa01657918239b77:
> 
>   ARM: pxa: use module_platform_driver macro (2012-10-26 17:25:15 +0800)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Paul Parsons (1):
>       ARM: pxa2xx: Remove EXPERIMENTAL dependency from spi-pxa2xx driver

This is a SPI driver change, and should either go through or be acked by that
maintainer. In this particular case, there's been several series of the
EXPERIMENTAL removals, and I think Kees Cook has one that removes it for all
options in one go. So please ack that patch instead.


> Srinivas Kandagatla (1):
>       ARM: pxa: use module_platform_driver macro

This looks like a cleanup, so I have cherry-picked it into our cleanup branch.

Based on the above, no need to resend this, but please follow up on the
EXPERIMENTAL cleanup by Kees.


-Olof

Hello Olof,

On 06/11/12 14:00, Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 07:59:54AM +0800, Haojian Zhuang wrote:
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> Paul Parsons (1):
>>        ARM: pxa2xx: Remove EXPERIMENTAL dependency from spi-pxa2xx driver
>
> This is a SPI driver change, and should either go through or be acked by that
> maintainer. In this particular case, there's been several series of the
> EXPERIMENTAL removals, and I think Kees Cook has one that removes it for all
> options in one go. So please ack that patch instead.

According to the current MAINTAINERS file, the drivers/spi/spi-pxa2xx*
driver is maintained by the PXA2xx/PXA3xx guys.
That is why I submitted this patch to the linux-arm-kernel list.
Is the MAINTAINERS file incorrect?

Regards,
Paul

On Tuesday 06 November 2012, Paul Parsons wrote:
> On 06/11/12 14:00, Olof Johansson wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 07:59:54AM +0800, Haojian Zhuang wrote:
> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> >> Paul Parsons (1):
> >>        ARM: pxa2xx: Remove EXPERIMENTAL dependency from spi-pxa2xx driver
> >
> > This is a SPI driver change, and should either go through or be acked by that
> > maintainer. In this particular case, there's been several series of the
> > EXPERIMENTAL removals, and I think Kees Cook has one that removes it for all
> > options in one go. So please ack that patch instead.
> 
> According to the current MAINTAINERS file, the drivers/spi/spi-pxa2xx*
> driver is maintained by the PXA2xx/PXA3xx guys.
> That is why I submitted this patch to the linux-arm-kernel list.
> Is the MAINTAINERS file incorrect?

The file is correct, but it's not always easy to understand. drivers/spi
overall is maintained by Grant, which arch/arm/mach-* is maintained by
Olof and me. Haojian maintains the PXA components for each one, so the
formal way to do this is to have arch/arm/mach-pxa patches go

Author -> Haojian -> arm-soc -> Torvalds

while drivers/spi/spi-pxa* change go

Author -> Haojian -> Grant -> Torvalds

In some cases, you need extra knowledge that is not documented properly,
e.g. that Grant was on leave recently, and Mark Brown stepped in for
him, or that the arm-soc maintainership has not been documented at
all for some time (fixed now). In doubt, just add more people to Cc.
We're all good at ignoring email that doesn't seem to address us ;-)

	Arnd