linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next 7/9] firmware_loader: Expand Firmware upload error codes

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Message-ID: <20231117095651.5f569fcb@kmaincent-XPS-13-7390>
Date:   Fri, 17 Nov 2023 09:56:51 +0100
From:   Köry Maincent <kory.maincent@...tlin.com>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     Conor Dooley <conor@...nel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
        Russ Weight <russ.weight@...ux.dev>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
        Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 7/9] firmware_loader: Expand Firmware upload
 error codes

On Thu, 16 Nov 2023 22:56:10 +0100
Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch> wrote:

> > This would be rather helpful to me for some stuff that I am currently
> > working on and was hoping to send to Arnd for inclusion in 6.8:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231020-series-uncooked-077b107af3ae@spud/
> > 
> > I'm currently returning a "HW_ERROR" for something that this would fit
> > the bill for (in mpfs_auto_update_write()). What would the ETA for this
> > stuff landing via the net tree be?
> > Since I am not a netdev contributor its hard to tell how controversial
> > these patches are!  
> 
> It already has the needed ACKs, so it could be merged
> anytime. However, it seems like two different subsystems are
> interested in it. So rather than merge it via netdev, it might make
> sense to merge it via its normal tree, driver-core. Then ask for a
> stable branch which can be pulled into netdev and arm-soc.

Ok, I will remove this patch from this series in v2 and send it through normal
tree.

Regards,
-- 
Köry Maincent, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com