Re: [PATCH v6 2/2] hwspinlock: qcom: Add support for Qualcomm HW, Mutex block

[Andy Gross]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 01:42:38PM -0700, Tim Bird wrote:

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> I'm pretty anxious about this one, as my current work has a dependency on it.
> Virtually the entirety of the QualComm SOC work is dependent on this
> because it's needed by the interprocessor communication framework
> and the regulator driver.
> 
> I assume we're waiting on the response from Ohad about getting this upstream?
> It's been almost 2 weeks with no reply.
> 
> Ohad - do you plan to do anything with this patch?  We seem to be at an impasse
> (once again).

With Suman's patches and this, the ball is in Ohad's court.   I believe Ohad
does this work in his off time as it is unpaid work.

> 
> This is the 6th attempt over the course of the last year and a half to get
> this hwspinlock code mainlined.  Should we just not use the hwspinlock
> framework?
> 
> What are our options going forward?

Not sure, aside from landing this somewhere else.  But that has it's own
inherent issues.

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