Re: [PATCH 0/4] power: avs: Move drivers to the soc directories and drop avs

From: Ulf Hansson
Date: Wed Oct 07 2020 - 11:23:38 EST


+ Arnd

On Wed, 7 Oct 2020 at 17:09, Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 6:05 PM Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > The avs drivers in drivers/power/avs/* are all SoC specific drivers that
> > doesn't share any code. Instead they are located in a directory, mostly to keep
> > similar functionality together. From a maintenance point of view, it makes
> > better sense to collect SoC specific drivers like these, into the SoC specific
> > directories.
> >
> > Therefore, this series moves the drivers, one by one - and in the end, it
> > deletes the empty avs directory.
> >
> > It seems best to me, if this can be funneled via Rafael's linux-pm tree. Then
> > when going forward, each driver should be managed through the SoC maintainer's
> > trees.
>
> That's fine by me.
>
> I'd like to get an ACK from the arm-soc side on this, though.

I have looped in Arnd, to get his opinion on this.

Although, I think the people on cc already send pull requests to the
arm-soc maintainers (or perhaps it was these people you were referring
to), so just awaiting their acks should be fine, I guess.

Kind regards
Uffe