netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 7/7] net: ipa: allow arbitrary number of interconnects

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Date:   Sat, 16 Jan 2021 19:12:07 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Alex Elder <elder@...aro.org>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, evgreen@...omium.org,
        bjorn.andersson@...aro.org, cpratapa@...eaurora.org,
        subashab@...eaurora.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 7/7] net: ipa: allow arbitrary number of
 interconnects

On Fri, 15 Jan 2021 06:50:50 -0600 Alex Elder wrote:
> Currently we assume that the IPA hardware has exactly three
> interconnects.  But that won't be guaranteed for all platforms,
> so allow any number of interconnects to be specified in the
> configuration data.
> 
> For each platform, define an array of interconnect data entries
> (still associated with the IPA clock structure), and record the
> number of entries initialized in that array.
> 
> Loop over all entries in this array when initializing, enabling,
> disabling, or tearing down the set of interconnects.
> 
> With this change we no longer need the ipa_interconnect_id
> enumerated type, so get rid of it.

Okay, all the platforms supported as of the end of the series 
still have 3 interconnects, or there is no upstream user of 
this functionality, if you will. What's the story?