== Linus Walleij linusw ==

=== Highlights ===

* Collected and prepared a set of new GPIO patches targeted at v3.11, handshake with Grant on IRC.

* Continued to apply DMA40 patches from Lee on a specific DMA40 branch targeted for ARM SoC. The first batch of patches has been pulled into ARM SoC and we're now waiting for some final ACKs from Vinod on the remaining patches.

* Applied and queued various ux500 patches, including a patch I prepared for abx500 pinctrl tables. I now have these pending ux500 branches:

ux500-core ux500-defconfig ux500-devicetree ux500-dma40 ux500-fixes ux500-pinctrl

ux500-fixes will be send to ARM SoC ASAP, ux500-dma40 is partly landed in ARM SoC (for v3.11) and the rest remain to be funneled when stabilized.

* Reviewed lots of pinctrl and GPIO code. Much time has been spent on DT issues.

* Discussed at length about the option to create generic DT bindings and DT parsing code for the pinconf-generic consumers so we do not need to replicate this in all pinctrl drivers using the generic pinconf library.

* Iterated the U300 device tree + multiplatform patch series. Arnd has some final comments so we'll iterate it some more.

* Nomadik DT clocks and some more Nomadik changes like DT pinctrl were pulled into ARM SoC.

* Ethernet fix for the Nomadik S8815 is upstream.

* Tested an IRQ branch from Grant on the Integrator/AP.

=== Plans ===

* Finalize U300 DT+multiplatform patch set.

* Integrate Integrator PCI patch set, then start to delete board files and convert to multiplatform.

* Convert Nomadik pinctrl driver to register GPIO ranges from the gpiochip side.

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

* Get hands dirty with regmap.

=== Issues ===

* Subsystem maintainers in the kernel community are forced to act as standardization comittee for device tree bindings due to lack of review power. As they have to merge the bindings in the end, reviewing fall upward to the subsystem maintainers, this is something of a workload issue.

* Need a PCI branch at ARM SoC to request Integrator PCI DT patches to be pulled into. (Still blocked on this for Integrator single zImage.)

* Some impediments from internal turmoil @ST-Ericsson.

Thanks, Linus Walleij