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Date:   Mon, 4 Jan 2021 09:52:24 -0600
From:   Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>
To:     Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com>
CC:     Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] PCI: J7200/J721E PCIe bindings
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On 21:01-20210104, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
> Nishanth,
> 
> On 04/01/21 8:21 pm, Nishanth Menon wrote:
> > On 18:52-20210104, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
> >> Nishanth,
> >>
> >> On 04/01/21 6:46 pm, Nishanth Menon wrote:
> >>> On 18:40-20210104, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
> >>>> Nishanth,
> >>>>
> >>>> On 04/01/21 6:29 pm, Nishanth Menon wrote:
> >>>>> On 17:52-20210104, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
> >>>>>> Patch series adds DT nodes in order to get PCIe working in J7200.
> >>>>>> Also includes couple of fixes for J721e.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> v1 of the patch series can be found @ [1]
> >>>>>> v2 of the patch series can be found @ [2]
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Changes from v2:
> >>>>>> 1) Moved serdes_refclk node out of interconnect node and also replaced
> >>>>>>    "_" with "-"
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Changes from v1:
> >>>>>> 1) Include only the device tree patches here (the binding patch is sent
> >>>>>> separately)
> >>>>>> 2) Include couple of patches that fixes J721E DTS.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> [1] -> http://lore.kernel.org/r/20201102101154.13598-1-kishon@ti.com
> >>>>>> [2] -> http://lore.kernel.org/r/20201210130747.25436-1-kishon@ti.com
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Kishon Vijay Abraham I (6):
> >>>>>>   arm64: dts: ti: k3-j721e-main: Fix supported max outbound regions
> >>>>>>   arm64: dts: ti: k3-j721e-main: Remove "syscon" nodes added for
> >>>>>>     pcieX_ctrl
> >>>>>>   arm64: dts: ti: k3-j7200-main: Add SERDES and WIZ device tree node
> >>>>>>   arm64: dts: ti: k3-j7200-main: Add PCIe device tree node
> >>>>>>   arm64: dts: ti: k3-j7200-common-proc-board: Enable SERDES0
> >>>>>>   arm64: dts: ti: k3-j7200-common-proc-board: Enable PCIe
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>  .../dts/ti/k3-j7200-common-proc-board.dts     |  38 ++++++
> >>>>>>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-j7200-main.dtsi     | 111 ++++++++++++++++++
> >>>>>>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-j721e-main.dtsi     |  52 ++------
> >>>>>>  3 files changed, 157 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> A bit confused on the dependency here. is there something merged into
> >>>>> next-20210104 that makes this series ready for pickup? is there a way
> >>>>> I can get a immutable tag for driver fixups to pull so that my dts
> >>>>> next is not broken for PCIe (I am assuming looking at the series that
> >>>>> this is probably not a backward compatible series?)?
> >>>>
> >>>> There are no driver changes for the basic J7200 PCIe support and the DT
> >>>> bindings are already merged [1].
> >>>>
> >>>> There are few errata fixes applicable for J721E which has to be removed
> >>>> for J7200 but that depends on other patches to be merged [1] but that
> >>>> doesn't impact j7200 functionality.
> >>>>
> >>>> [1] ->
> >>>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/ti,j721e-pci-host.yaml#n19
> >>>> [2] -> http://lore.kernel.org/r/20201230120515.2348-1-nadeem@cadence.com
> >>>
> >>> So, Dropping stuff like "cdns,max-outbound-regions" (change from 16 to
> >>> 32) will work on older kernels? Could you do a quick sanity check on the
> >>> couple of "fixes" patches in this thread is not breaking functionality
> >>> introduced in the older stable kernels?
> >>
> >> Okay, the driver changes are done such that it works with both old DT
> >> and new DT however the newer DT will not work with old kernel. So I
> >> think I should drop the "Fixes" tag in the DT patches.
> > 
> > If there is a specific stable kernel version you might like to use, you
> > could use that as well for those stable tags (see [1])
> 
> It's not a fix that might bother people (as it doesn't impact existing
> functionality), so don't think it's a candidate for stable releases.


OK. please repost without the fixes tag.
-- 
Regards,
Nishanth Menon
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