Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754252AbbFRXDG (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jun 2015 19:03:06 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:59408 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754111AbbFRXC6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jun 2015 19:02:58 -0400 Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 16:02:57 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Jose Rivera Cc: "arnd@arndb.de" , "devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Stuart Yoder , Sharma Bhupesh , "agraf@suse.de" , Hamciuc Bogdan , Erez Nir , Katz Itai , Scott Wood , Marginean Alexandru , "dan.carpenter@oracle.com" , Richard Schmitt Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/7] staging: fsl-mc: New functionality to the MC bus driver Message-ID: <20150618230257.GC32238@kroah.com> References: <1433887148-2310-1-git-send-email-German.Rivera@freescale.com> <20150613001849.GB5234@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23+89 (0255b37be491) (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1489 Lines: 36 On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 03:01:22PM +0000, Jose Rivera wrote: > Greg, > > Thanks for your feedback. It is our fault that we did not articulate > clearly our intent with this patch series. First, for reference, let > us summarize here the patches in question: > > Patch 1: MC bus IRQ support > Patch 2: add device binding path 'driver_override' > Patch 3: Propagate driver_override for a child DPRC's children > Patch 4: Upgraded MC bus driver to match MC fw 7.0.0 > Patch 5: Allow the MC bus driver to run without GIC support > Patch 6: Add locking to serialize mc_send_command() calls > Patch 7: Use DPMCP IRQ and completion var to wait for MC > > With the exception of patches 2 and 3 (needed for vfio), our intent with > the rest was to make to changes to work towards completing the "Add at > least one device driver for a DPAA2 object" on the TODO list. ah, missed that item, my fault. > Before sending further patches we will submit an update to the TODO list > to provide more detail and visibility into our plan to complete the > "Add at least one device driver..." item. It's too broad as written. > In particular, we think interrupt support is required and a pre-requisite. Ok, that sounds good, please do. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/