[ACTIVITY] (Linus Walleij) 2012-03-10 - 2012-03-18

[Linus Walleij]

== Linus Walleij linusw ==

=== Highlights ===

* Grant merged the SPI message queue core patch,
  also Mark Browns patch moving the Samsung SPI
  driver to use this central message queue.

* Discussed dmaengine. This is pretty important, it looks
  like someone needs to step up and look into the
  channel mapping problem which is a pretty big
  piece of work.

* Pushed out an interesting core driver patch that was
  harvested from Rabin inside ST-Ericsson.

* Pushed out a new set of three MFD patches for
  AB8500 trying to keep things in sync.

* Reviewed and ACK:ed a set of 7 device tree patches
  for ux500 by Lee Jones, now probably merged by
  Arnd.

* Reviewed and ACK:ed the v7 clk patches from Mike
  Turquette.

* Volunteered for the MMCI driver maintenanceship.
  Russell will keep it for now even though it's marked
  "orphaned" in MAINTAINERS.

* Discussed a bit around ALSA SoC AB8500 codec
  implementation driven by Ola LILJA from ST-Ericsson.

* Discussed some LED patches from Bryan Wu.

=== Plans ===

* Get ready to issue pull request for pinctrl this
  coming merge window.

* Prepare to convert ux500 (gpio-nomadik) to pinctrl
  for the kernel 3.5 timeframe.

* Attending the Embedded Systems Conference in
  San Jose 27th thru 30th of march.

* Tentative easter vacation first week april.

* Test the U9540 core patches on real hardware and
  rework as outlined by Arnd.

* 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 ===

* We really need someone to look at dmaengine for
  member SoCs.

Thanks,
Linus Walleij