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    SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 00/47] kernel: Add support for power-off handler call chain
    On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 10:16:17AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
    > On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 11:03:24AM -0500, Felipe Balbi wrote:
    > > Adding Johan, who's working on RTC power off for AM335x devices
    > >
    > Hi Felipe,
    >
    > is that the rtc-omap driver ?

    yes it is.

    > I am tracking linux-next for related changes. As new power-off handlers are
    > introduced, I prepare patches for those as well. I currently have patches for
    > the following two drivers in the queue:
    > drivers/regulator/act8865-regulator.c
    > drivers/rtc/rtc-omap.c
    >
    > I plan to send review requests for those patches in a week or so (I think
    > there is still some change pending to the power-off function in the rtc-omap
    > driver, and I want to wait for it).

    yeah, Johan's working on that.

    > My current plan is to send a pull request for the series directly to Linus
    > when the next commit window opens; this is what a number of maintainers
    > suggested I should do. This pull request would exclude the last patch,
    > so pm_power_off would still be there. Next steps would then be to submit
    > another set of patches to update the newly introduced power-off handlers
    > and then to finally remove pm_power_off; this would probably happen after
    > the commit window closes.
    >
    > At least that is the plan unless someone has a better idea ....

    sounds like a good idea to me :-)

    > There may be some variants; for example, it might make sense to create an
    > immutable branch with the key patches (1-3 and 8) to enable others to use
    > the new functions immediately. That would require Acks from affected
    > maintainers for patch 1, though, so I can not do that yet.

    alright, I think an immutable branch people can merge would be
    appreciated nevertheless, but I'd certainly defer that to arch and soc
    maintainers.

    cheers

    --
    balbi
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