Re: [PATCH v9 00/11] PM / Domains: Support hierarchical CPU arrangement (PSCI/ARM) (a subset)

From: Lorenzo Pieralisi
Date: Thu Oct 04 2018 - 13:20:30 EST


On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 07:07:27PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

[...]

> > > I don't see any dependency there, so I'll queue up the 1-3 in
> > > pm-domains and the 4-6 in pm-cpuidle.
> >
> > I do not see why we should merge patches 4-6 for v4.20; they add legacy
> > (DT bindings and related parsing code) with no user in the kernel; we
> > may still want to tweak them, in particular PSCI DT bindings.
>
> My impression was that 4-6 have been agreed on due to the ACKs they
> carry. I'll drop them if that's not the case.

I have not expressed myself correctly: they have been agreed (even
though as I said they may require some tweaking) but I see no urgency
of merging them in v4.20 since they have no user. They contain DT
bindings, that create ABI/legacy, I think it is better to have code
that uses them in the kernel before merging them and creating a
dependency that is not needed.

> > Likewise, it makes no sense to merge patches 7-8 without the rest of
> > the PSCI patches.
>
> OK
>
> I'll let the ARM camp sort out the PSCI material then.

We will do.

Thanks,
Lorenzo