Hi Mark,
On 2016/2/3 20:04, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 03:52:09PM +0800, Guodong Xu wrote:
>
>> As of v4.4, already upstreamed:
>
>> - clk, psci, basic dts, uart, cpufreq, cpuidle, mailbox, emmc, wifi driver
>> fix, and tsensor (thermal)
>
> Of these only the clock, PSCI and the UART appear to be included in the
> DTS. If a feature is not enabled in the DTS most people would not
> understand it as being supported upstream for the board since there is
> no way for someone to actually use any of these features if they use
> mainline.
>
>> - hikey can boot using vanilla v4.4 kernel and defconfig.
>
> It can boot to serial console with a ramdisk, nothing else. There is a
> serious discrepency between the features you are reporting as supported
> upstream and the features that are actually supported upstream, the set
> supported upstream is has not changed substantially since merge.
>
>> v4.5-rc1:
>
>> USB: driver, 37dd9d6 usb: dwc2: add support of hi6220.
>
> Again, this does not appear in the DT and is therefore unusable for
> anyone using mainline.
>
>> Slated for v4.6 merge-window:
>
>> hisi-reset driver: in linux-next ( http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/tree/drivers/reset/hisilicon?h=next-20160129
>> )
>
> This seems to already be in Linus' tree so unless some major problem is
> discovered it should be in v4.5.
>
>> DTS: in maintainer's git repo: <https://github.com/hisilicon/linux-hisi>
>>
>> - Including: gpio, pinctrl, i2c
>
> This does not appear to be part of the kernel development process, it
> does not appear in -next and I can't see any prior cases where a pull
> request from this tree has made it into -next. I don't see that there
> is any reasonable expectation that anything there will make it into
> mainline.
>
> Like I said above there is a big difference between what you are
> reporting as upstream and the features that are practically usable
> upstream. This is creating a lot of frustration on the part of
> potential users who want to work on mainline, both with the lack of
> features itself and with the fact that lists of supported features are
> typically substantially inaccurate which makes people feel they are
> being mislead.
>
Can you help review the regualtor V7 patches?
It's already reviewed by haojian.zhuang. He thinks it is okay now.
>
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