linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 2/7] firmware: smccc: Update link to latest SMCCC specification

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Date:   Fri, 15 May 2020 13:46:48 +0100
From:   Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>
To:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>,
        Steven Price <steven.price@....com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        harb@...erecomputing.com, Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/7] firmware: smccc: Update link to latest SMCCC
 specification

On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 12:37:44PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 05:44:06PM +0100, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> > The current link gets redirected to the revision B published in November
> > 2016 though it actually points to the original revision A published in
> > June 2013.
> >
> > Let us update the link to point to the latest version, so that it
> > doesn't get stale anytime soon. Currently it points to v1.2 published in
> > March 2020.
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Steven Price <steven.price@....com>
> > Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>
>
> Changing the link is fine, but could we also add a line to make it clear
> which version of spec was written against, e.g.
>
> | This code is up-to-date with version DEN 0028 A
>
> ... as that was previously implicit in the documentation link, and it
> makes clear what the code is aware of and what it is trying to handle.
> Iknow we'll have to update it periodically, but I think that's
> worthwthile.
>

Makes sense, I will update.

> With that:
>
> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
>

Thanks.

--
Regards,
Sudeep