linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] irqchip: introduce the Alpine MSIX driver

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Date:	Thu, 11 Feb 2016 15:59:28 +0100
From:	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>
To:	Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@...e-electrons.com>
Cc:	Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>, tglx@...utronix.de,
	jason@...edaemon.net, tsahee@...apurnalabs.com,
	rshitrit@...apurnalabs.com, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] irqchip: introduce the Alpine MSIX driver

Hello,

On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 15:45:44 +0100, Antoine Tenart wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 01:41:48PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > On 10/02/16 13:22, Antoine Tenart wrote:
> > > 
> > > This series introduce the Alpine MSIX driver, and enables it in both
> > > the Alpine v1 and Alpine v2 device trees.
> > > 
> > > This series depends on "[PATCH v2 0/3] arm64: introduce the Alpine support":
> > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/2/10/83
> > > 
> > > You can find the series at:
> > > https://github.com/atenart/linux.git 4.5-rc1/alpinev2-msix
> > 
> > So I'm quite happy with this as it is (modulo the documentation fix on
> > patch 3). I can take the first 3 patches through my GIC tree, but the
> > last 4 patches depend on your other series.
> 
> I'll fix the documentation.
> 
> > Would it be a problem to get these 4 patches merged after 4.6-rc1, so
> > that all the code can be merged before?
> 
> I think we can live with that :)

Practically speaking, patches 4-7 have no build dependency on patches
1-3, so they can be merged independently. As long as the DT binding
introduced in patches 1-3 is validated, then patches 4-7 can be merged
in parallel.

Best regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com