Re: [GIT PULL 0/7] ARM: SoC changes for 4.7

[Rob Herring]

On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 5:07 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Linus,
>
> These are the first seven pull requests for arm-soc this time, there is
> one small follow-up coming once the dependencies for that have landed
> in your tree.
>
> Things remain relatively calm for us. We merged 122 pull requests with
> 822 patches, plus 35 individual patches, which is less than what we used
> to have. We are shifting even more towards changing only dts files,
> for the most part adding new functionality on existing boards, and adding
> new machines, as shown clearly by the dirstat:

[...]

>  730 files changed, 47909 insertions(+), 7916 deletions(-)
>
> My feeling is that the number of dts changes remain constant, but
> everything else gets less every time, and that's good.

I happen have a script... (I run it every time people complain about DT).

Here's the diffstat of mach-* and plat-* since merging DT support:

v3.0: 833 files changed, 10945 insertions(+), 37476 deletions(-)
v3.1: 955 files changed, 17796 insertions(+), 20300 deletions(-)
v3.2: 1507 files changed, 32960 insertions(+), 33392 deletions(-)
v3.3: 1301 files changed, 27725 insertions(+), 18941 deletions(-)
v3.4: 1324 files changed, 27079 insertions(+), 21500 deletions(-)
v3.5: 975 files changed, 32340 insertions(+), 46663 deletions(-)
v3.6: 648 files changed, 16121 insertions(+), 13161 deletions(-)
v3.7: 1389 files changed, 23739 insertions(+), 61097 deletions(-)
v3.8: 1066 files changed, 32812 insertions(+), 40821 deletions(-)
v3.9: 1031 files changed, 10051 insertions(+), 33399 deletions(-)
v3.10: 831 files changed, 15049 insertions(+), 27333 deletions(-)
v3.11: 675 files changed, 18519 insertions(+), 30012 deletions(-)
v3.12: 474 files changed, 12575 insertions(+), 25120 deletions(-)
v3.13: 491 files changed, 11088 insertions(+), 13375 deletions(-)
v3.14: 408 files changed, 5586 insertions(+), 12691 deletions(-)
v3.15: 538 files changed, 7809 insertions(+), 9337 deletions(-)
v3.16: 499 files changed, 6528 insertions(+), 10252 deletions(-)
v3.17: 596 files changed, 6274 insertions(+), 36824 deletions(-)
v3.18: 333 files changed, 3111 insertions(+), 6905 deletions(-)
v3.19: 435 files changed, 6180 insertions(+), 32402 deletions(-)
v4.0: 265 files changed, 4081 insertions(+), 14119 deletions(-)
v4.1: 362 files changed, 4286 insertions(+), 24876 deletions(-)
v4.2: 292 files changed, 3115 insertions(+), 11567 deletions(-)
v4.3: 306 files changed, 3223 insertions(+), 14510 deletions(-)
v4.4: 160 files changed, 2014 insertions(+), 4893 deletions(-)
v4.5: 531 files changed, 3839 insertions(+), 4398 deletions(-)
v4.6: 211 files changed, 1417 insertions(+), 4320 deletions(-)

Once this goes to 0, we can move the dts files out of the kernel and
make you maintainer. ;)

The dts files' numbers do look pretty constant.

Rob