Re: [PATCH 00/10] hwspinlock-next

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Sep 21 2011 - 11:00:40 EST


On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 04:13:40PM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> * Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@xxxxxxxxxx> [110920 01:34]:
> > On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I'm wondering how hwspinlock updates like this should go upstream.
> >
> > The first hwspinlock batch was picked by Tony, because it involved a
> > bulk of OMAP changes.
> >
> > Hwspinlock isn't OMAP-specific anymore though (we gained support for
> > STE's u8500) and the vast majority of changes are in drivers/. We're
> > still very much ARM-related, though this may change too at some point
> > (c6x has a similar "hardware semaphore" peripheral like the u8500
> > does).
> >
> > Tony, if you're still willing to pick up these updates I'd be happy to
> > send you pull requests of course.
>
> I'd prefer for Greg to take these as these are drivers.

What, am I the catch-all for drivers these days?

Oh, right, it looks like I am :)

> If he's not taking it at this point based on it being ARM only,
> I can take it then.

Please do, I don't even have the ability to build them here, as I don't
have an arm cross-compiler on this travel laptop.

greg k-h
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