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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/4] ARM: msm: Remove 7x00 support
    On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 08:37:28AM -0700, Olof Johansson wrote:
    > Daniel,
    >
    > I would be very happy to take more code for the older Qualcomm chipset
    > to enable full functionality for them, but it's been my impression
    > that far from all that is needed to make it a useful platform is in
    > the upstream kernel, and there's been no signs of more of it showing
    > up at least in the last two years.

    Some of the platform code he's removing is not compiled right now. I
    would have liked to make it compile, but I don't care that much (and
    they don't either) ..

    > So we have a bit of a stalemate here -- the current Qualcomm team
    > wants to avoid having to deal too much with the legacy platforms --
    > they are technically quite different from the current platforms and
    > the divergence makes it hard to deal with supporting it all in a
    > modern way without risking regressions. I tend to agree with them.

    Oh what a sob story .. They can't claim to maintain msm except for the
    parts they don't like that much, thats not how it works. If you
    have a technical reason why you think hard to maintain code is
    "hard to deal with", please put that forth .

    If they want they can start submitting their patches to me, and I can
    deal with their "hard to deal with" stuff..

    > Just like omap split between omap1 and omap2plus, I think it's a time
    > to create a mach-qcom instead, and move the modern (v7, most likely)
    > platforms there -- enable them with device tree, modern framework
    > infrastructure, etc. That way you can keep older platforms in mach-msm
    > without risk of regressions, and they have a clean base to start on
    > with their later platforms.

    Personally I think splitting mach- stuff isn't very useful or
    interesting.. There's just no technical reason for it, for example x86
    and x86_64 was a win from my perspective , there's a lot more reason to
    keep similar things together than to split things up.

    The whole risking regressions, do you have proof of why you think that's
    happening ? The inverse seems more likely..

    Daniel


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