Re: [PATCH 2/2] device core: Add flag to autoremove device link on supplier unbind

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 8:09 PM, Vivek Gautam
<vivek.gautam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On 7/4/2018 4:14 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>>
>> On Wednesday, July 4, 2018 9:16:20 AM CEST Vivek Gautam wrote:
>>>
>>> Adding Ulf and Marek.
>>>
>>> On 6/27/2018 6:20 PM, Vivek Gautam wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Add a flag to autoremove the device links on supplier driver
>>>> unbind. This obviates the need to explicitly delete the link
>>>> in the remove path.
>>>> We remove these links only when the supplier's link to its
>>>> consumers has gone to DL_STATE_SUPPLIER_UNBIND state.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Suggested-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
>>>> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@xxxxxxx>
>>>> Cc: linux-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Cc: linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Cc: linux-arm-msm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> ---
>>>
>>> Hi Rafael, et al.
>>>
>>> Gentle ping.
>>> Do you have comments on this series. I would really like to conclude
>>> these
>>> device link additions sooner, and get things moving on the long awaited
>>> arm-smmu clock/runtime support series.
>>>
>>> Thanks again for reviewing these patches.
>>
>> They are fine by me.
>>
>> I can queue them up for 4.19 if no one has objections (Greg in
>> particular).
>
>
> Hi Rafael,
>
> I will resubmit these 2 patches as part of the arm-smmu series, as one
> of the patch in the series depends on addition of
> DL_FLAG_AUTOREMOVE_SUPPLIER.
> So these 2 patches and arm-smmu series should go together.
> Can you please consider givnig your Ack?

I would prefer to apply them myself to be honest and put them on an
public git branch for you to pull from.

Thanks,
Rafael