linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] platform:x86 decouple telemetry driver from the optional IPC resources

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Date:	Mon, 11 Apr 2016 15:05:50 +0800
From:	"Li, Aubrey" <aubrey.li@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
	"Chakravarty, Souvik K" <souvik.k.chakravarty@...el.com>
Cc:	"Zha, Qipeng" <qipeng.zha@...el.com>,
	"platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org" 
	<platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] platform:x86 decouple telemetry driver from the optional
 IPC resources

On 2016/4/11 14:48, Darren Hart wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 04:04:55AM +0000, Chakravarty, Souvik K wrote:
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Zha, Qipeng
>>> Sent: Monday, April 11, 2016 7:34 AM
>>> To: Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>; Aubrey Li
>>> <aubrey.li@...ux.intel.com>; Chakravarty, Souvik K
>>> <souvik.k.chakravarty@...el.com>
>>> Cc: platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
>>> Subject: RE: [PATCH] platform:x86 decouple telemetry driver from the
>>> optional IPC resources
>>>
>>>>> Currently the optional IPC resources prevent telemetry driver from
>>>>> probing if these resources are not in ACPI table. This patch
>>>>> decouples telemetry driver from these optional resources, so that
>>>>> telemetry driver has dependency only on the necessary ACPI resources.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Aubrey Li <aubrey.li@...ux.intel.com>
>>>
>>>> Given the impact to their recent contributions, I'm looking for reviews from
>>> Qipeng and Souvik before I merge this.
>>>
>>>> Qipeng, as the listed maintainer for these two files, I particularly need to
>>> hear from you.
>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Hi Darren,  I think this is a reasonable solution for such issue.
>>> Thanks Aubrey for this fixing patch.
>>
>> We went over this internally once. So OK from my POV.
> 
> Qipeng and Souvik, I appreciate the responses.


Thank you all. -Aubrey
> 
> As a point of process, I won't include a "Reviewed-by:" unless you explicitly
> include it in your response.
>