[U-Boot] ARM mach-types.h (was: Re: [PATCH 1/5] add DOCKSTAR machine type)

Paulraj, Sandeep s-paulraj at ti.com
Wed Sep 8 20:58:04 CEST 2010


> 
> No. This will quicklly result in a maze of merge conflicts.
> 
> We will always only update the file as a whole.  THe only option I'm
> willing to discuss is where to get the file from.
> 
> > One catch remains, of course: I someone changed their entry at the
> database,
> > compilation of u-boot for that board could break. I think that entries
> that
> > have propagated to the mainline Linux kernel cannot be changed anymore.
> 
> Right. Which is exactly the reason for syncing against this version.
> 
> > I'd also think the u-boot mach-type.h could do well without all the
> function
> > definitions. I have not grepped, however, if someone in u-boot uses them.
> 
> I don;t think we do. But as mentioned above, we don;t want to mess
> with this file, we just update it as is.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Wolfgang Denk
> 

We are in sync with the latest in linux kernel

Take a look at

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git;a=history;f=arch/arm/tools/mach-types;h=48cbdcb6bbd4288929f31bef94da3691b160a489;hb=917977d107c9640dbb29ce85542735ad56e3aa5a

Regards,
Sandeep


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