Re: [PATCH v5 00/17] PCI: rcar-gen4: Recover from link down and route Root Port interrupts

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Den-san,

Thanks for your series!

On Tue, 20 Oct 2026 at 05:11, Koichiro Den <den@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Proposed merge plan
> -------------------
>
> With v5, this series seems to have almost converged, so I'd like to ask
> how maintainers would prefer to merge it. Any advice would be greatly
> appreciated. Here's what I have in mind:
>
> To Mani:
>
>   I'd expect patches 1-14 to go through the PCI tree.
>   One option would be a two-stage approach like:
>
>   1. Take patches 1/2/5/10 through controller/dwc ("PCI: dwc:" patches).
>   2. Once those patches are available in controller/dwc-rcar-gen4,
>      take the remaining patches 3/4/6-9/11-14 there
>      (the R-Car driver and binding patches).
>
> To Geert:
>
>   Once patch 4 is available in renesas-devel, I'd like to ask you to
>   take patches 15-17 together.

I don't think I have to wait that long, as there is no hard dependency?
As soon as the DT bindings (patch 4) are accepted in pci/next, I can
queue the DTS patches in renesas-devel?

Thanks!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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