Re: [PATCH for-next 0/2] {IB,net}/hns: Add support of ACPI to the Hisilicon RoCE Driver

[Doug Ledford]

On 8/25/2016 12:53 AM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 04:44:48 +0800
> 
>> This patch is meant to add support of ACPI to the Hisilicon RoCE driver.
>> Following changes have been made in the driver(s):
>>
>> Patch 1/2: HNS Ethernet Driver: changes to support ACPI have been done in
>>    the RoCE reset function part of the HNS ethernet driver. Earlier it only
>>    supported DT/syscon.
>>
>> Patch 2/2. HNS RoCE driver: changes done in RoCE driver are meant to detect
>>    the type and then either use DT specific or ACPI spcific functions. Where
>>    ever possible, this patch tries to make use of "Unified Device Property
>>    Interface" APIs to support both DT and ACPI through single interface.
>>
>> NOTE 1: ACPI changes done in both of the drivers depend upon the ACPI Table
>>      (DSDT and IORT tables) changes part of UEFI/BIOS. These changes are NOT
>>      part of this patch-set.
>> NOTE 2: Reset function in Patch 1/2 depends upon the reset function added in
>>      ACPI tables(basically DSDT table) part of the UEFI/BIOS. Again, this
>>      change is NOT reflected in this patch-set.
> 
> I can't apply this series to my tree because the hns infiniband driver
> doesn't exist in it.
> 

No.  This probably needs to go through my tree.  Although with all of
the requirements, I'm a bit concerned about those being present elsewhere.

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Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx>
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