linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 00/23] memory: Cleanup, improve and compile test memory drivers

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Message-ID: <20200723095209.GA30472@kozik-lap>
Date:   Thu, 23 Jul 2020 11:52:09 +0200
From:   Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>, arm-soc <arm@...nel.org>,
        SoC Team <soc@...nel.org>, Markus Mayer <mmayer@...adcom.com>,
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        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Santosh Shilimkar <ssantosh@...nel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/23] memory: Cleanup, improve and compile test
 memory drivers

On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 11:31:02AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 9:37 AM Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Dear All,
> >
> > The drivers/memory directory contains generic code (of_memory.c) and a
> > bunch of drivers.  Changes to generic code were coming usually through
> > different trees with the driver code.
> >
> > Over last days, memory drivers grew in numbers but not necessarily in
> > quality.  They lacked compile testing and code cleanup.  Also lacked
> > maintainer.
> >
> > I would be happy to take care about this part.
> >
> > If there are no objections, the patches could go either to Linus or to
> > arm-soc (most of drivers are ARM specific).
> >
> > Driver-specific changes in the patchset were only compile-tested. Tests
> > are welcome. The generic code was tested on ARMv7 Exynos based boards
> > with a exynos5422-dmc memory controller driver.
> 
> Overall this looks great, I had a look through the patches and commented
> on the few things that seemed slightly odd though harmless.
> 
> Thanks for picking up the subsystem. How do you want to proceed
> in the long run? I suppose you can send a pull request to soc@...nel.org
> to be picked up for the coming merge window as the normal way, since
> you are not yet listed as the maintained until the end of the series.
> 
> Afterwards you could either send the pull requests to Linus directly,
> or send them to the soc team (or to Greg) as well, the way we handle
> a couple of other subsystems like drivers/reset and drivers/tee that
> usually only have a handful of patches per release.

Most of the drivers are for ARM architecture so arm-soc seems like the
way to do it.  However BT1_L2_CTL and JZ4780_NEMC are MIPS specific and
maybe more would come in the future.  Are you fine taking them as well?

Best regards,
Krzysztof