[U-Boot] [linux-sunxi] Re: [PATCH v2 10/10] ARM: sun6i: Add Colombus board defconfig

[Ian Campbell]

On Sun, 2014-09-28 at 17:40 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi Ian,
> 
> On 09/28/2014 05:33 PM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Thu, 2014-09-25 at 20:09 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2014-09-24 at 16:01 +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> >>> The Colombus board is an A31 evaluation board from WITS Technology.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens at csie.org>
> >>
> >>> ---
> >>>  configs/Colombus_defconfig | 4 ++++
> >>>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> >>>  create mode 100644 configs/Colombus_defconfig
> >>>
> >>> diff --git a/configs/Colombus_defconfig b/configs/Colombus_defconfig
> >>> new file mode 100644
> >>> index 0000000..16800de
> >>> --- /dev/null
> >>> +++ b/configs/Colombus_defconfig
> >>> @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
> >>> +CONFIG_SYS_EXTRA_OPTIONS="COLOMBUS"
> >>
> >> Does this do anything other than define an unused #define?
> >>
> >> Ah, I suppose eventually it will cause the inclusion of a suitable dram
> >> file. Really ought to start moving things out of SYS_EXTRA though, but I
> >> don't think you need to shave that yakk just to get this patch in, so:
> >>
> >> Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ijc at hellion.org.uk>
> > 
> > Although I've just noticed that lacks a board/sunxi/MAINTAINERS entry.
> > 
> > I think there is no need to resend the whole series, just this one
> > patch. With this minor tweak I think it's time add this to
> > u-boot-sunxi#next.
> 
> Before you do that, note that I've just added 2 patches there, which I would
> like to get into v2014.10. Specifically I'm hoping that I can get some
> positive testing feedback on the bananapi gmac patch I've send (off-list),
> and I believe we really should try to get the bananapi fix into v2014.10,
> and if we're going todo a pull-req for v2014.10, we might as well include
> the 2 patches I've just added to next. Do you agree ?

You mean these two?
        sun7i: Add support for Olimex A20-OLinuXino-LIME2
        mmc: sunxi: add SDHC support for sun6i/sun7i/sun8i

The latter seems like a feature to me, or at least the changelog doesn't
give any rationale why it should go in now rather than waiting for the
next merge window (i.e. why it's a bugfix, what the upside is to justify
its inclusion now). How much testing has it had and what are the
potential downsides?

WRT the new board (and new boards generally), I'm in two minds. On the
one hand they are pretty low risk (can't regress anything else, at least
not in this case), on the other we are 6 weeks past the close of the
merge window and 2 from the release date, so we are pretty far along.
Where do we draw the line?

The gmac fix is a clear bug fix and once it is properly posted publicly
I will ack and then I agree it should go in.

> Still feel free to merge the sun6i series into next, I can just cherry pick
> the 3 patches in question directly into master when I'm ready to send the
> pull-req.

Ack, that's what I expected to happen.

Ian.