Re: [PATCH v6 3/6] irqchip: RISC-V per-HART local interrupt controller driver

[Anup Patel]

On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 1:11 PM Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 2020-06-01 05:09, Anup Patel wrote:
> > On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 4:23 PM Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 2020-05-31 11:06, Anup Patel wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Also, the PLIC spec is now owned by RISC-V foundation (not SiFive) so
> > we will have to rename the driver to "irq-riscv-plic" and will have a
> > new
> > generic compatible string "riscv,plic-1.0.0". One of us (me or Palmer)
> > will
> > send separate patches for this renaming. I hope you will be fine with
> > this??
> > (Refer, https://github.com/riscv/riscv-plic-spec)
>
> Do we really need the churn of a renaming? A new compatible, and maybe
> a new config option should be enough, no? What does the renaming give
> us?

I thought renaming the file would be good to reflect ownership of RISC-V
PLIC spec but I guess renaming just Kconfig option and new compatible
string is fine as well.

Regards,
Anup