netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/6] net: ipa: tell GSI the IPA version

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Message-ID: <20201104163138.6c5d534d@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
Date:   Wed, 4 Nov 2020 16:31:38 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Alex Elder <elder@...aro.org>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, evgreen@...omium.org, subashab@...eaurora.org,
        cpratapa@...eaurora.org, bjorn.andersson@...aro.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/6] net: ipa: tell GSI the IPA version

On Mon,  2 Nov 2020 11:53:54 -0600 Alex Elder wrote:
> The GSI code that supports IPA avoids having knowledge about the
> IPA layer it serves.  One result of this is that Boolean flags are
> used during GSI initialization to convey that certain hardware
> version-dependent special behaviors should be used.
> 
> A given version of IPA hardware uses a fixed/well-defined version
> of GSI, so the IPA version really implies the GSI version.
> 
> If given only the IPA version, the GSI code supporting IPA can
> use it to implement certain special behaviors required for IPA
> *or* GSI.  This avoids the need to pass and maintain numerous
> Boolean flags.

Applied, thanks.

> Note:  the last patch in this series depends on this patch posted
> for review earlier today:
>   https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20201102173435.5987-1-elder@linaro.org

But in the future please don't post dependent changes like this. The
build bots cannot figure this out and give up on checking your series.