[ACTIVITY] (Linus Walleij) 2011-12-17 - 2012-01-13

[Linus Walleij]

== Linus Walleij linusw ==

=== Highlights ===

* Torvalds accepted and pulled in the 31 patches that were
  accumulated for pin control last kernel cycle.

* Bug fixes for various ux500 Daniel Lezcano (PM) on
  linux-next were applied by Russell and pulled into the
  mainline tree with the other ARM patches.

* Fixed a build bug in SA1100 caused by the new dynamic
  clksrc stuff. (Found in kisskb.)

* Updating Blueprints and such administrativa.

* Merged the PXA pin control (muxing only) driver by
  Haoijan, it's a real nice driver and good example for
  others.

* Ux500 mainlining since too little is happening:
 - Prepared a set of PRCMU update patches.
 - Helping our ALSA SoC authors to get started to get their
   stuff upstream.

* Signed GPG keys for Sjur Brændeland and
  Henrik Rydberg (the input/touch maintainer).


=== Plans ===

* New pin config table patch due ASAP. I am working on this.
  There is a per-pin and per-group configuration call but this
  does not suffice: developers want tables of configurations
  to be handled by the pin controller core as well.

* 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.

* Prepare conference presentations for Android builders and
  Embedded Linux Conference.

* 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
 - Ux500 clocks
 - the HWMON stuff.


=== Issues ===

* Nobody is mainlining Ux500, and being a subarch
  maintainer I feel bad about not being able to do much about
  it due to time shortage. This is creating problems for others
  since core functionality is missing which makes other
  subsystems suffer and other stuff cannot be mainlined. :-(

Thanks,
Linus Walleij