Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] DW DMAC: update device tree

From: Vinod Koul
Date: Tue Nov 22 2016 - 22:56:37 EST


On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 12:37:06PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-11-21 at 10:02 +0000, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
> > Hi Andy,
> >
> > On Fri, 2016-11-18 at 21:26 +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2016-11-18 at 22:12 +0300, Eugeniy Paltsev wrote:
> > > >
> > > > It wasn't possible to enable some features like
> > > > memory-to-memory transfers or multi block transfers via DT.
> > > > It is fixed by these patches.
> > >
> > > First of all, please, give time to reviewers to comment the patches.
> > > Usually it should be at least 24h (for the series that has been sent
> > > first time 1 week approximately).
> >
> > I'm not really sure a lot of people get disturbed by this series
> > and given this all has been discussed for months now I'd really like
> > to see changes required for our HW to work to land in upstream ASAP.
>
> I understand your concern, I'm often in the same position in many areas,
> including this driver (I'm not a maintainer of slave DMA subsystem).
>
> Though let's face the issues we have with the series:
> - stuff regarding to style and alike (would be fixed in a day)
> - DTS naming and conventions, this is apparently a big area, where I
> might share opinion, but can't decide for
> - last word by the subsystem maintainer
>
> > Too bad we're late for 4.9 (which is supposed to be the next LTS) but
> > > we need to make sure this series hits 4.10 for sure.
>
> Vinod, is it possible to get in for this series (if we get Ack from DT
> people)?

We still have a week or so... But holding race agaisnt upstream is a bad
idea... Doesnt work that way.

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~Vinod