Re: [PATCH v6 2/2] hwspinlock: qcom: Add support for Qualcomm HW, Mutex block

From: Andy Gross
Date: Wed Mar 11 2015 - 18:15:24 EST


On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 01:42:38PM -0700, Tim Bird wrote:

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> I'm pretty anxious about this one, as my current work has a dependency on it.
> Virtually the entirety of the QualComm SOC work is dependent on this
> because it's needed by the interprocessor communication framework
> and the regulator driver.
>
> I assume we're waiting on the response from Ohad about getting this upstream?
> It's been almost 2 weeks with no reply.
>
> Ohad - do you plan to do anything with this patch? We seem to be at an impasse
> (once again).

With Suman's patches and this, the ball is in Ohad's court. I believe Ohad
does this work in his off time as it is unpaid work.

>
> This is the 6th attempt over the course of the last year and a half to get
> this hwspinlock code mainlined. Should we just not use the hwspinlock
> framework?
>
> What are our options going forward?

Not sure, aside from landing this somewhere else. But that has it's own
inherent issues.

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