linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] fpga: Updates for 4.10-rc2

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Message-ID: <20170105075148.GA4788@kroah.com>
Date:   Thu, 5 Jan 2017 08:51:48 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Alan Tull <atull@...nel.org>
Cc:     Moritz Fischer <moritz.fischer@...us.com>,
        linux-fpga@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        atull <atull@...nsource.altera.com>, dinguyen@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] fpga: Updates for 4.10-rc2

On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 03:53:18PM -0600, Alan Tull wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 3:28 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 02:00:23PM -0600, Alan Tull wrote:
> >> Hi Greg,
> >>
> >> Please pull these changes for FPGA.
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >> Alan
> >>
> >> The following changes since commit e3d31bda06e43968cd215ae590eb7cda827f01e9:
> >>
> >>   Add linux-next specific files for 20161224 (2017-01-04 10:26:49 -0600)
> >>
> >> are available in the git repository at:
> >>
> >>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/atull/linux-fpga.git tags/fpga-for-greg-20170104
> >>
> >> for you to fetch changes up to 2dd088da8cce745c008fc7f8b64e1aef33eb37c2:
> >>
> >>   ARM: ep93xx: Register ts73xx-fpga manager driver for TS-7300 (2017-01-04 10:27:26 -0600)
> >>
> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> >> fpga: Updates for 4.10-rc2
> >>
> >>  * Add scatterlist based fpga programming
> >>  * TS-7300 FPGA manager
> >>  * zynq: Check for errors after completing DMA
> >>  * fix sparse warnings in fpga-mgr and fpga-bridge
> >
> > These are all bugfixes or regression fixes?  Doesn't seem like adding
> > new functionality and a new driver fits that category to me, why add
> > them now?
> >
> > Sorry, I can't take this, if you resend them as patches, I can be more
> > specific...
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
> 
> Hi Greg,
> 
> Yes, sorry, I'm still learning here.  One patch is a fix (sparse
> errors), the rest are new functionality.

Ok, let's stick to patches then, no git pull requests, it makes things
easier that way for things to be reviewed properly.

> Would it be appropriate to separate these and send you two pull
> requests -  the sparse error fix for 4.10 and the rest (new
> functionality) for 4.11?

why would a sparse warning fix be ok for a -rc kernel?  Is it a real
bug?

Send patches, we can go from there please.

thanks,

greg k-h