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Date:   Wed, 29 Nov 2023 15:09:17 +0100
From:   "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>
To:     "Herve Codina" <herve.codina@bootlin.com>,
        "Qiang Zhao" <qiang.zhao@nxp.com>, "Leo Li" <leoyang.li@nxp.com>,
        "Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@kernel.org>,
        "Shengjiu Wang" <shengjiu.wang@gmail.com>,
        "Xiubo Li" <Xiubo.Lee@gmail.com>,
        "Fabio Estevam" <festevam@gmail.com>,
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        "Mark Brown" <broonie@kernel.org>,
        "Jaroslav Kysela" <perex@perex.cz>,
        "Takashi Iwai" <tiwai@suse.com>,
        "Christophe Leroy" <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
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        "Thomas Petazzoni" <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/17] Prepare the PowerQUICC QMC and TSA for the HDLC QMC driver
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On Tue, Nov 28, 2023, at 15:07, Herve Codina wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This series updates PowerQUICC QMC and TSA drivers to prepare the
> support for the QMC HDLC driver.
>
> Patches were previously sent as part of a full feature series:
> "Add support for QMC HDLC, framer infrastructure and PEF2256 framer" [1]
>
> The full feature series reached the v9 iteration.
> The v1 was sent the 07/25/2023 followed by the other iterations
> (07/26/2023, 08/09/2023, 08/18/2023, 09/12/2023, 09/22/2023, 09/28/2023,
> 10/11/23, 11/15/2023) and was ready to be merged in its v8.
>   https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kernel/20231025123215.5caca7d4@kernel.org/
>
> The lack of feedback from the Freescale SoC and the Quicc Engine
> maintainers (i.e. drivers/soc/fsl/qe/ to which the QMC and TSA drivers
> belong) blocks the entire full feature series.
> These patches are fixes and improvements to TSA and QMC drivers.
> These drivers were previously acked by Li Yang but without any feedback
> from Li Yang nor Qiang Zhao the series cannot move forward.
>
> In order to ease the review/merge, the full feature series has been
> split and this series contains patches related to the PowerQUICC SoC
> part (QMC and TSA).
>  - Perform some fixes (patches 1 to 5)
>  - Add support for child devices (patch 6)
>  - Add QMC dynamic timeslot support (patches 7 to 17)
>
> From the original full feature series, a patches extraction without any
> modification was done.

I took a rough look at the entire series and only have a few
minor comments to one patch, otherwise it looks fine to me.

I would still prefer for Li Yang to merge the patches and
send the pull request to soc@kernel.org, but if this also
gets stalled because of lack of feedback and there are no
objections to the content, you can send a PR there yourself.

     Arnd