linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 2/5] ACPI / processor_core: Rework _PDC related stuff to make it more arch-independent

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Message-ID: <530AED41.4060407@linaro.org>
Date:	Mon, 24 Feb 2014 14:57:05 +0800
From:	Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>
To:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
CC:	Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@...el.com>,
	"graeme.gregory@...aro.org" <graeme.gregory@...aro.org>,
	"patches@...aro.org" <patches@...aro.org>,
	"linaro-acpi@...ts.linaro.org" <linaro-acpi@...ts.linaro.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Charles Garcia-Tobin <Charles.Garcia-Tobin@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/5] ACPI / processor_core: Rework _PDC related stuff
 to make it more arch-independent

On 2014-2-22 18:33, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On 21 Feb 2014, at 23:35, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...ysocki.net> wrote:
>> On Friday, February 21, 2014 06:24:24 PM Catalin Marinas wrote:
>>> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 01:50:22AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>>>> On Wednesday, February 19, 2014 12:23:55 AM Hanjun Guo wrote:
>>>>> _PDC related stuff in processor_core.c is little bit X86/IA64 dependent,
>>>>> rework the code to make it more arch-independent, no functional change
>>>>> in this patch.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Graeme Gregory <graeme.gregory@...aro.org>
>>>>
>>>> I've queued up patches [1,3-5/5] from this series for 3.15 (modulo changelog
>>>> modifications), but this one should be CCed to the x86 and ia64 maintainers.
>>>
>>> Thanks for taking these patches. I would however hold onto patch 3/5 as
>>> this is still under discussion. Basically for patches specific to ARM
>>> ACPI I would really like to see more acks before being merged as that's
>>> a new thing for us.
>>
>> OK, I'll drop [3/5] for now, then.
> 
> Thanks (it’s only temporary ;)).
> 
>> I'm wondering, though, whose ACKs I should be waiting for before applying those
>> patches?
> 
> Good question ;). In this particular case, there is an ongoing
> discussion between Hanjun and Sudeep. While there isn’t anything
> major, I would like to see some agreement and potentially an Ack from
> the other party involved in the discussion (Sudeep).
> 
> There are other patches that are not specific to ARM, so it’s
> really your decision. As for the general ARM(64) ACPI case, I don’t
> think we have anyone in charge with deciding what’s correct or not
> (BTW, who are the people active both in the _ARM_ Linux kernel community
> and the ACPI standardisation forum?).

I'm in ASWG (ACPI spec working group) under UEFI, and Al Stone and Charles
(+cc Charles) are also in this forum.

Thanks
Hanjun
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