linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 0/5] soc: aspeed: Add XDMA engine driver

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Message-ID: <d1fe0157-8a4b-f0f5-f0e4-443d6f4e3e4a@linux.ibm.com>
Date:   Fri, 3 Apr 2020 09:52:29 -0500
From:   Eddie James <eajames@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Andrew Jeffery <andrew@...id.au>, linux-aspeed@...ts.ozlabs.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>, Joel Stanley <joel@....id.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 0/5] soc: aspeed: Add XDMA engine driver


On 4/2/20 7:32 PM, Andrew Jeffery wrote:
>
> On Fri, 3 Apr 2020, at 06:19, Eddie James wrote:
>> This series adds a driver to control the Aspeed XDMA engine embedded in the
>> AST2500 and AST2600. The XDMA engine performs automatic DMA operations
>> over PCI-E between the Aspeed SOC (acting as a BMC) and a host processor.
>>
>> Changes since v6:
>>   - See individual patches
> v7 is not an evolution on v6 - v7 contains a bunch of bugs that v6 fixed (at least
> wrt locking). How did you generate this series?


My goodness, I could have sworn that was v6. I took the series that was 
merged in the openbmc kernel. Must have gotten mixed up. -_-


>
> Also my name is misspelled in each of the Reviewed-by: tags which makes me
> think that something has gone quite wrong with the posting of v7, and I'm
> concerned that this was based on e.g. v5 but with my tags against v6 applied.


Well thats because I added them manually since they had "disappeared" or 
so I thought from v6 during the application to openbmc... guess that 
should have been a warning sign

>
> Andrew