Re: [PATCH 2/2] arc770: move arc patches to taregt/linux/generic

2016-01-20 Thread Vineet Gupta
On Friday 15 January 2016 06:47 PM, Vineet Gupta wrote: >> I also don't think there's anything architecture >> > specific about requiring DEVTMPFS or not, so I'd say it doesn't make any >> > sense to select it from arch/arc/Kconfig. > You are indeed right - Kconfig is not the "ideal" place to add

Re: [PATCH 2/2] arc770: move arc patches to taregt/linux/generic

2016-01-16 Thread Felix Fietkau
On 2016-01-16 12:00, Peter Korsgaard wrote: > >> We changed to devtmpfs by default in Buildroot quite some time ago, and > >> I'm pretty happy with it. > > We need to have dynamically created device nodes anyway - for managing > > permissions, being able to change names, etc. Because of that, d

Re: [PATCH 2/2] arc770: move arc patches to taregt/linux/generic

2016-01-16 Thread Peter Korsgaard
> "Felix" == Felix Fietkau writes: Hi, >> Out of interest, why is that? Devtmpfs got added 7 years ago (2.6.32) - >> And is easy to backport if really needed, is easier and more flexible >> than a bunch of static mknods, and probably smaller as well. > We don't need to backport anything.

Re: [PATCH 2/2] arc770: move arc patches to taregt/linux/generic

2016-01-16 Thread Felix Fietkau
On 2016-01-16 11:35, Peter Korsgaard wrote: >> "Felix" == Felix Fietkau writes: > > >>> OpenWrt works just fine without DEVTMPFS - doesn't matter if initramfs > >>> is enabled or not. > >> > >> The discussion is about adding a patch to up upstream ARC kernel, not > specific to > >> ope

Re: [PATCH 2/2] arc770: move arc patches to taregt/linux/generic

2016-01-16 Thread Peter Korsgaard
> "Felix" == Felix Fietkau writes: >>> OpenWrt works just fine without DEVTMPFS - doesn't matter if initramfs >>> is enabled or not. >> >> The discussion is about adding a patch to up upstream ARC kernel, not >> specific to >> openwrt. > Right. I belive that the upstream kernel shoul

Re: [PATCH 2/2] arc770: move arc patches to taregt/linux/generic

2016-01-15 Thread Felix Fietkau
On 2016-01-15 14:17, Vineet Gupta wrote: > On Friday 15 January 2016 06:29 PM, Felix Fietkau wrote: >> +Subject: [PATCH 1/2] openwrt: arc - remove dependency on DEVTMPFS >> + >> +OpenWRT builds initramfs so that it doesn't require DEVTMPFS so >> dropping >>

Re: [PATCH 2/2] arc770: move arc patches to taregt/linux/generic

2016-01-15 Thread Vineet Gupta
On Friday 15 January 2016 06:29 PM, Felix Fietkau wrote: > +Subject: [PATCH 1/2] openwrt: arc - remove dependency on DEVTMPFS > + > +OpenWRT builds initramfs so that it doesn't require DEVTMPFS so > dropping > +this dependency. >> > >> > Really ? AFAIKR (c

Re: [PATCH 2/2] arc770: move arc patches to taregt/linux/generic

2016-01-15 Thread Felix Fietkau
On 2016-01-15 13:25, Vineet Gupta wrote: > +CC Thomas, Peter > > On Friday 15 January 2016 04:19 PM, Alexey Brodkin wrote: >> Hi Felix, >> >> On Fri, 2016-01-15 at 11:45 +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote: >>> On 2016-01-15 00:12, Alexey Brodkin wrote: Given those patches are relevant to any ARC plat

Re: [PATCH 2/2] arc770: move arc patches to taregt/linux/generic

2016-01-15 Thread Vineet Gupta
+CC Thomas, Peter On Friday 15 January 2016 04:19 PM, Alexey Brodkin wrote: > Hi Felix, > > On Fri, 2016-01-15 at 11:45 +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote: >> On 2016-01-15 00:12, Alexey Brodkin wrote: >>> Given those patches are relevant to any ARC platform and even >>> ISA version it makes perfect sense

Re: [PATCH 2/2] arc770: move arc patches to taregt/linux/generic

2016-01-15 Thread Alexey Brodkin
Hi Felix, On Fri, 2016-01-15 at 11:45 +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote: > On 2016-01-15 00:12, Alexey Brodkin wrote: > > Given those patches are relevant to any ARC platform and even > > ISA version it makes perfect sense for patches to exist > > in one place instead of being duplicated for each new ARC