Re: [PATCH 46/58] clocksource/drivers: Add a new driver for the Atmel ARM TC blocks

[Nicolas Ferre]

Le 12/06/2017 Ã 15:25, Daniel Lezcano a Ãcrit :
> On 12/06/2017 14:54, Nicolas Ferre wrote:
> 
> [ ... ]
> 
>>> I like the 'chosen' approach with the nodes you are proposing below. Thanks for
>>> the constructive suggestion. The binding description matches perfectly what we
>>> are trying to achieve.
>>>
>>> Rob? what do you think?
>>
>> I'm following this work from a distance but as we've just celebrated the
>> 1st anniversary for this patch series (11 June 2016), I propose that we
>> now make up our mind quickly. Everybody seem to be on the same page and
>> willing to make this rework move forward.
>>
>> In Microchip/Atmel we would like to actually use this TCB rework both
>> internally and in our mainline work to avoid having to rely on our own
>> out-of-tree implementation.
>>
>> The newly-added samv7 cortex-M can't boot without this series and a use
>> of our current cortex-A SoCs with TrustZone in Secure World (SWd) is not
>> possible with current mainline code only. On these two examples, the
>> current timer on which we rely, the PIT, is not present.
>>
>> So you probably understand that more than one year without real progress
>> begins to be a little bit frustrating for the AT91 users...
> 
> Nicolas,
> 
> who are you exactly blaming?
> 
> Are you surprised a 58 patches series, with a gazillion of Cc'ed people
> posted awhile ago, is ignored?

Daniel,

Well, I'm talking about the only patch about DT bindings here, not the
other (large number) of soc/board dts changes.
Note that Alexandre tried to extract this discussion from the other
patches without coming to a conclusion either ("[PATCH v3] ARM: at91:
Document new TCB bindings", for instance).

I had the feeling that this email thread was about to be fading out on a
DT binding discussion, as it had done a couple of times during the last
months... Both you and me produced "ping" messages to make this
discussion progress with no real success so far... This is why I was a
little worried.

Regards,
-- 
Nicolas Ferre