Re: [PATCH 2/3] irqchip: al-fic: Introduce Amazon's Annapurna Labs Fabric Interrupt Controller Driver

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Thu, 2019-06-06 at 08:37 +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 07:55:43AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > On Wed, 2019-06-05 at 09:59 +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > > 
> > > > +struct irq_domain *al_fic_wire_get_domain(struct al_fic *fic);
> > > > +
> > > > +struct al_fic *al_fic_wire_init(struct device_node *node,
> > > > +				void __iomem *base,
> > > > +				const char *name,
> > > > +				unsigned int parent_irq);
> > > > +int al_fic_cleanup(struct al_fic *fic);
> > > 
> > > Who is using these new functions?  We don't add new apis that no one
> > > uses :(
> > 
> > They will be used by subsequent driver submissions but those aren't
> > quite ready yet, so we can hold onto patch 3 for now until they are.
> 
> Patch 2 also should have these removed :)

That's a mistake, that export should have been in patch3. Talel, pls
fix that in your next spin.

> You know we don't add new apis until we have a real, in-kernel user for
> them...

Yup, the user are going to be drivers in other subsystems, so
coordination is a bit tricky, which is I think why Talel wanted to
submit that now, but the patches for those other drivers aren't quite
ready yet so we can hold onto that one for the time being.

It's nothing nefarious :-) Just coordination issues.

Cheers,
Ben.

> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h