Re: [PATCH 2/3] of: property: Add fw_devlink support for msi-parent

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Fri Oct 27 2023 - 13:29:32 EST


On Fri, Oct 27 2023 at 21:01, Anup Patel wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 1:27 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 25 2023 at 19:58, Anup Patel wrote:
>> > This allows fw_devlink to create device links between consumers of
>> > a MSI and the supplier of the MSI.
>>
>> How is this related to the two fixes in this series?
>
> The first three patches of the v11 RISC-V AIA series are all
> fixes hence I sent them separately for the 6.7 merge window.
> (https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20231023172800.315343-1-apatel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/)
>
> All three fixes are unrelated to each other and were discovered
> during AIA driver development.
>
> This patch fixes the probing order for platform devices having
> inter-dependency based on "msi-parent" DT property.
> For example, the AIA APLIC (wired-to-MSI bridge) platform
> device depends on the AIA IMSIC (MSI controller) platform
> device.

Well, the changelog should tell that it is a fix and not make the
illusion that this is pure enablement....

> Are you okay with this patch going through the RISC-V tree ?

Fine with me.