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

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Message-Id: <73c7b292-fa99-4809-a0fa-b3605f35aff4@www.fastmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 05 Apr 2020 16:27:35 +0930
From:   "Andrew Jeffery" <andrew@...id.au>
To:     "Eddie James" <eajames@...ux.ibm.com>,
        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 Sat, 4 Apr 2020, at 01:22, Eddie James wrote:
> 
> 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. -_-

No worries, hopefully v8 is in the right state :)

> 
> 
> >
> > 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

It certainly was for me!

Cheers,

Andrew