[ACTIVITY] (Linus Walleij) 2011-12-10 - 2011-12-16

[Linus Walleij]

== Linus Walleij linusw ==

=== Highlights ===

* Located and fixed a nasty ux500 iotable bug reported by
  Daniel Lezcano (PM) on linux-next:
  http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/patches/viewpatch.php?id=7233/1

* Located a clock drift problem on ux500 found by
  Daniel Lezcano (PM) as well. Thinking about a patch...

* Various pinctrl patches being applied and discussed among them
  dummy pinmuxes akin to dummy regulators, we need to
  see if this is a good idea or not.

* Blueprints and stuff updates with assitance from Mounir
  (thanks!) we're using pinctrl as some test
  case for the process, which is both fun and painful.

* Reviewed Samsung and Freescale and PXA pinctrl
  (mainly mux) implementations, it actually looks like these
  drivers will be mainly a smooth ride.

* Discussed DT mappings to pin controllers again, now
  Dong Aisheng is taking it a step further since he has a
  clear idea on how this should work and will write and
  document pinctrl bindings for Freescale, patches already
  exist for iMX.6 this is looking real good.

* Ux500 mainlining since too little is happening:
  - core ASIC patches and dropping prototype silicon patches
   sent out.
  - Helping our ALSA SoC authors to get started to get their
    stuff upstream, some problem with the usual - clocks,
    regulators, DMA, but it's looking OK.

* Helped Sjur Brændeland to get M7400 XSHM patches
  into linux-next and will help him to establish a
  k.org repository.


=== Plans ===

* Vacation 2011-12-19 thru 2012-01-06
  Expect next report at the end of my first working week
  2012-01-13.

* Drive generalization of Nomadik GPIO
 by using the pinctrl framework.
 drivers/gpio/gpio-nomadik.c

* Test the PL08x patches on the Ericsson Research
 PB11MPCore and submit platform data for using
 pl08x DMA on that platform.

* Look into other Ux500 stuff in need of mainlining...
 like
  - the HWMON stuff.
  - DB8500 PRCMU updates


=== Issues ===

* Snowball/Igloo may need help with a USB issue, but
  I won't be in any capacity to help them :-(

Thanks,
Linus Walleij