Re: [PATCH v9 0/2] J-Core timer support

From	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH v9 0/2] J-Core timer support
Date	2016-10-20 20:00 +0200
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Daniel,

On Thu, 20 Oct 2016, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 09:32:40AM +0200, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> > Unfortunately it won't happen. v4.9-rc1 is already out. The driver will be
> > in v4.10.
> > 
> > If you wanted patches merged for v4.9, they should have been merged in the
> > downstream tree before v4.8-rc5, so they hit the upstream tree for v4.9's merge
> > window.
> 
> I've been trying to get what's essentially the same patch merged since
> before the 4.8 merge window. I would be more understanding if this
> were something new that's not upstream, but broken support for the
> hardware (that, from a user perspective, is a bug, since they can
> select the target but then it doesn't boot) has already been in one
> release due to missing core drivers, and the irq patches have already
> been merged in this release (post-rc1 even).

It's hardware enablement and not a new feature, so it's fine to merge it
now. I'll pick it up later tonight.

Thanks,

	tglx

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[PATCH v9 0/2] J-Core timer support Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> - 2016-10-14 00:00 +0200
  [PATCH v9 1/2] of: add J-Core timer bindings Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> - 2016-10-14 00:00 +0200
    [tip:timers/urgent] of: Add J-Core timer bindings tip-bot for Rich Felker <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2016-10-20 20:20 +0200
  [PATCH v9 2/2] clocksource: add J-Core timer/clocksource driver Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> - 2016-10-14 00:00 +0200
    [tip:timers/urgent] clocksource: Add J-Core timer/clocksource  driver tip-bot for Rich Felker <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2016-10-20 20:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v9 0/2] J-Core timer support Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> - 2016-10-17 11:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v9 0/2] J-Core timer support Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> - 2016-10-20 03:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v9 0/2] J-Core timer support Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> - 2016-10-20 09:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v9 0/2] J-Core timer support Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> - 2016-10-20 17:20 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v9 0/2] J-Core timer support Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2016-10-20 20:00 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v9 0/2] J-Core timer support Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2016-10-20 20:10 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v9 0/2] J-Core timer support Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> - 2016-10-20 20:30 +0200

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