Re: [PATCH V3 1/8] drivers: Add boot constraints core

2017-09-19 Thread Viresh Kumar
On 04-09-17, 11:38, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 11:15:47AM +0200, Viresh Kumar wrote: > > On 29-08-17, 14:03, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > Who couldn't reach an agreement? > > > > Rob Herring (DT Maintainer) didn't like the first set of bindings and wasn't > > convinced

Re: [PATCH V3 1/8] drivers: Add boot constraints core

2017-09-04 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 11:15:47AM +0200, Viresh Kumar wrote: > On 29-08-17, 14:03, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > Who couldn't reach an agreement? > > Rob Herring (DT Maintainer) didn't like the first set of bindings and wasn't > convinced that we need any new bindings for this purpose to begin wi

Re: [PATCH V3 1/8] drivers: Add boot constraints core

2017-09-04 Thread Viresh Kumar
On 29-08-17, 14:03, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > Who couldn't reach an agreement? Rob Herring (DT Maintainer) didn't like the first set of bindings and wasn't convinced that we need any new bindings for this purpose to begin with. > So you gave up and decided to make a > whole bunch of kernel code

Re: [PATCH V3 1/8] drivers: Add boot constraints core

2017-08-29 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 11:52:17AM +0200, Viresh Kumar wrote: > On 29-08-17, 08:39, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > How is this information getting to the kernel from the bootloader? I > > didn't see where that happened, just a single example driver that > > somehow "knew" what had to happen, which

Re: [PATCH V3 1/8] drivers: Add boot constraints core

2017-08-29 Thread Viresh Kumar
On 29-08-17, 08:39, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > How is this information getting to the kernel from the bootloader? I > didn't see where that happened, just a single example driver that > somehow "knew" what had to happen, which seems odd... I tried to do it with DT earlier, but we couldn't reach

Re: [PATCH V3 1/8] drivers: Add boot constraints core

2017-08-28 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 02:53:42PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote: > Some devices are powered ON by the bootloader before the bootloader > handovers control to Linux. It maybe important for those devices to keep > working until the time a Linux device driver probes the device and > reconfigure its resou

[PATCH V3 1/8] drivers: Add boot constraints core

2017-08-01 Thread Viresh Kumar
Some devices are powered ON by the bootloader before the bootloader handovers control to Linux. It maybe important for those devices to keep working until the time a Linux device driver probes the device and reconfigure its resources. A typical example of that can be the LCD controller, which is u