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Message-ID: <87msw42cuj.ffs@tglx>
Date:   Fri, 27 Oct 2023 19:29:24 +0200
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Anup Patel <apatel@...tanamicro.com>
Cc:     Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
        Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>,
        Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>,
        Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
        Björn Töpel <bjorn@...nel.org>,
        Atish Patra <atishp@...shpatra.org>,
        Andrew Jones <ajones@...tanamicro.com>,
        Sunil V L <sunilvl@...tanamicro.com>,
        Saravana Kannan <saravanak@...gle.com>,
        Anup Patel <anup@...infault.org>,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] of: property: Add fw_devlink support for msi-parent

On Fri, Oct 27 2023 at 21:01, Anup Patel wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 1:27 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 25 2023 at 19:58, Anup Patel wrote:
>> > This allows fw_devlink to create device links between consumers of
>> > a MSI and the supplier of the MSI.
>>
>> How is this related to the two fixes in this series?
>
> The first three patches of the v11 RISC-V AIA series are all
> fixes hence I sent them separately for the 6.7 merge window.
> (https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20231023172800.315343-1-apatel@ventanamicro.com/)
>
> All three fixes are unrelated to each other and were discovered
> during AIA driver development.
>
> This patch fixes the probing order for platform devices having
> inter-dependency based on "msi-parent" DT property.
> For example, the AIA APLIC (wired-to-MSI bridge) platform
> device depends on the AIA IMSIC (MSI controller) platform
> device.

Well, the changelog should tell that it is a fix and not make the
illusion that this is pure enablement....

> Are you okay with this patch going through the RISC-V tree ?

Fine with me.