Subject: [PATCH 1/1] ARM: ux500: Describe UART platform registering issues more accurately

From: [email-masked] (Jon Hunter)
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:27:22 -0600

On 11/16/2012 03:36 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 15 November 2012, Lee Jones wrote:
>> On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>
>>> On Thursday 15 November 2012, Lee Jones wrote:
>>>> UARTs no longer require call-back information, since the reset
>>>> call-back was removed in 43b5f0d69291374f602ad8e1817f329573a59010.
>>>> The only AUXDATA dependencies remaining for UARTs are DMA settings.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <[email-masked]>
>>>
>>> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email-masked]>
>>>
>>> What is the state of the DMA binding now? We originally wanted to merge
>>> it for 3.7, but that didn't work out, so I hope we can get it done for
>>> 3.8.
>>
>> It's dead. The conversation has been stale for weeks.
>>
>> Perhaps you'd like to go and poke it? :)
>>
> 
> Vinod,
> 
> is there anything you are waiting for still? Should Jon resend
> his latest patches to make sure we get them merged this time?
> 
> I have multiple people that want to send me patches for 3.8 based
> on that work, so we are running out of time now.

Vinod responded today saying it will be in for v3.8 [1].

Jon

[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.omap/89502