Re: [PATCH 00/13] arm-cci: PMU driver updates for 4.6

[Will Deacon]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 08:58:14AM -0800, Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 01:55:51PM +0000, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote:
> > On 23/02/16 11:40, Will Deacon wrote:
> > >On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 10:49:42AM +0000, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> > >>Here are some fixes and updates for arm-cci pmu driver targeting v4.6,
> > >>applies on top of v4.5-rc5.
> > >>
> > >>Highlights include :
> > >>  - Support for CoreLink CCI-550 PMU
> > >>  - Reliable writes to PMU Counter registers for CCI-500/550.
> > >>
> > >>All the patches have been Acked. Please let me know how this
> > >>can be merged.
> > 
> > >>
> > >>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/cci.txt |    2 +
> > >>  drivers/bus/Kconfig                           |   10 +-
> > >>  drivers/bus/arm-cci.c                         |  612 +++++++++++++++++--------
> > >>  3 files changed, 427 insertions(+), 197 deletions(-)
> > >
> > >How do you plan to merge this? I can take it all onto a branch for
> > >arm-soc, or I can include it on my perf/updates branch, or ...?
> > 
> > Arnd, Olof,
> > 
> > What do you think would be the best route ?
> 
> Traditionally we've been picking these up in arm-soc in our drivers branch.
> 
> Will, unless you want them in your tree for some reason that's what I'll do
> here as well.

Just that I already have some CPU PMU patches that I planned to send, so
I could bundle these in with those if necessary. I have no preference
either way though, as long as they get queued someplace.

At some point, those drivers should be largely moved from drivers/bus/
to drivers/perf/, but that's a separate issue.

Will