Re: [PATCH 01/29] bus: mhi: Remove auto-start option

[Manivannan Sadhasivam]

On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 06:00:05PM +0200, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > From: Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > There is really no point having an auto-start for channels.
> > This is confusing for the device drivers, some have to enable the
> > channels, others don't have... and waste resources (e.g. pre allocated
> > buffers) that may never be used.
> >
> > This is really up to the MHI device(channel) driver to manage the state
> > of its channels.
> >
> > While at it, let's also remove the auto-start option from ath11k mhi
> > controller.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > [mani: clubbed ath11k change]
> > Signed-off-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Hmm, didn't we apply this already? At least I pulled the immutable
> branch to my tree:
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvalo/ath.git/commit/?h=ath-next&id=526740b495059ebbc0c3c086dceca1263820fa4f
> 
> So if there's a new version of this patch (and a new commit id) the
> immutable branch I pulled is not immutable anymore.

This is not a new version of the patch. The commit SHA of this patch in
immutable branch is ed5298c7d500abaf34ed7783969e953a1f028e5b and that is same
in mhi-next as well.

Now I'm funneling all patches in mhi-next to mainline through Greg, so this
patch is part of the (MHI changes for v5.11) patch series. Perhaps you might be
dealing with pull requests to Dave/Jakub but since the MHI patch flow is usually
fairly low, Greg is happy with patch series.

But since we are dealing with immutable branch I should send the pull request
to Greg now.

Thanks,
Mani

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