linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/7] towards QE support on ARM

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Date:   Thu, 24 Oct 2019 15:02:59 -0500
From:   Li Yang <leoyang.li@....com>
To:     Qiang Zhao <qiang.zhao@....com>
Cc:     Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
        Timur Tabi <timur@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-serial@...r.kernel.org" <linux-serial@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>,
        "linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] towards QE support on ARM

On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 9:54 PM Qiang Zhao <qiang.zhao@....com> wrote:
>
> On 22/10/2019 18:18, Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
> > Sent: 2019年10月22日 18:18
> > To: Qiang Zhao <qiang.zhao@....com>; Leo Li <leoyang.li@....com>
> > Cc: Timur Tabi <timur@...nel.org>; Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org;
> > linux-serial@...r.kernel.org; Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>;
> > linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org; linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] towards QE support on ARM
> >
> > On 22/10/2019 04.24, Qiang Zhao wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 22, 2019 at 6:11 AM Leo Li wrote
> >
> > >> Right.  I'm really interested in getting this applied to my tree and
> > >> make it upstream.  Zhao Qiang, can you help to review Rasmus's
> > >> patches and comment?
> > >
> > > As you know, I maintained a similar patchset removing PPC, and someone
> > told me qe_ic should moved into drivers/irqchip/.
> > > I also thought qe_ic is a interrupt control driver, should be moved into dir
> > irqchip.
> >
> > Yes, and I also plan to do that at some point. However, that's orthogonal to
> > making the driver build on ARM, so I don't want to mix the two. Making it
> > usable on ARM is my/our priority currently.
> >
> > I'd appreciate your input on my patches.
>
> Yes, we can put this patchset in first place, ensure it can build and work on ARM, then push another patchset to move qe_ic.

Right.  I would only accept a patch series that can really build and
work on ARM.  At least the current out-of-tree patches can make it
work on ARM.  If we accept partial changes, there is no way to make it
work on the latest kernel on ARM then.

Regards,
Leo