Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] perf: Add Raspberry Pi AXI PMU driver

[Florian Fainelli]

On 8/13/26 06:48, Ian Rogers wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2026 at 2:08 AM Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, 12 Aug 2026 at 09:28, Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 11, 2026 at 10:24:15PM -0700, Ian Rogers wrote:
> > > > This patch series adds an uncore Performance Monitoring Unit (PMU) driver
> > > > for Broadcom AXI system and VideoCore VPU performance monitors found on
> > > > Raspberry Pi SoCs (BCM2835 through BCM2712 / Raspberry Pi 1 through 5).
> > >
> > > Why are you sending four versions of this patch series, at -rc7, each in
> > > reply to the previous one? Nobody is going to review that.
> >
> > I'm also wondering why this is called rpi_axi_pmu where it very much
> > looks like Broadcom IP, and is possibly used in other Broadcom SoCs,
> > Florian can you confirm what this driver should be called?
>
> I'm somewhat agnostic regarding the naming, and having a more general
> driver strikes me as a good thing. Fwiw, I based the name on a
> somewhat similarly named non-perf-compliant driver:
> https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/blob/rpi-6.18.y/drivers/perf/raspberrypi_axi_monitor.c

Given this uses the Raspberry Pi firmware interface, having 
rpi/rasbperrypi in the name is sensible IMHO, but the IP is technically 
from Broadcom AFAICT, so using a bcm2835 prefix wouldn't be far off.

Ian, I am really having a hard time following all of your frequent 
submissions, would you mind waiting for feedback before spinning new 
versions?

Thanks!
--
Florian