linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/6] PCI/ASPM: Fix pci_enable_link

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Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2025 13:28:40 +0530
From: Manivannan Sadhasivam <mani@...nel.org>
To: Jeff Johnson <jeff.johnson@....qualcomm.com>
Cc: manivannan.sadhasivam@....qualcomm.com, 
	Jeff Johnson <jjohnson@...nel.org>, Lorenzo Pieralisi <lpieralisi@...nel.org>, 
	Krzysztof Wilczyński <kwilczynski@...nel.org>, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, 
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>, Nirmal Patel <nirmal.patel@...ux.intel.com>, 
	Jonathan Derrick <jonathan.derrick@...ux.dev>, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	ath12k@...ts.infradead.org, ath11k@...ts.infradead.org, ath10k@...ts.infradead.org, 
	Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>, ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, Krishna Chaitanya Chundru <krishna.chundru@....qualcomm.com>, 
	Qiang Yu <qiang.yu@....qualcomm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] PCI/ASPM: Fix pci_enable_link_state*() APIs behavior

On Wed, Jul 16, 2025 at 10:11:27AM GMT, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> On 7/16/2025 5:56 AM, Manivannan Sadhasivam via B4 Relay wrote:
> > Merging Strategy
> > ================
> > 
> > Even though there is no build dependency between PCI core and atheros patches,
> > there is a functional dependency. So I'd recommend creating an immutable branch
> > with PCI patches and merging that branch into both PCI and linux-wireless trees
> > and finally merging the atheros patches into linux-wireless tree.
> > 
> > If immutable branch seems like a hassle, then PCI core patches could get merged
> > for 6.17 and atheros patches can wait for 6.18.
> 
> I'm fine with either strategy. In the first case I'd merge the immutable
> branch into the ath tree. Note I plan to issue my final PR to linux-wireless
> for the 6.17 merge window on Monday, so we should close on this decision soon.
> 

Looks like there are a couple of things that need to be fixed before this series
gets merged. So we can defer the whole series for 6.18.

- Mani

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