Re: [PATCH v7 4/7] arm: Use common cpu_topology structure and functions.

From: Sudeep Holla
Date: Mon Jun 24 2019 - 11:33:50 EST


On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 04:30:33PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux admin wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 04:06:58PM +0100, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 01:10:57PM +0100, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> > > Hi Russell,
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 11:59:17AM -0700, Atish Patra wrote:
> > > > Currently, ARM32 and ARM64 uses different data structures to represent
> > > > their cpu topologies. Since, we are moving the ARM64 topology to common
> > > > code to be used by other architectures, we can reuse that for ARM32 as
> > > > well.
> > > >
> > > > Take this opprtunity to remove the redundant functions from ARM32 and
> > > > reuse the common code instead.
> > > >
> > > > To: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atish.patra@xxxxxxx>
> > > > Tested-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx> (on TC2)
> > > > Reviewed-by : Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx>
> > > >
> > > > ---
> > > > Hi Russell,
> > > > Can we get a ACK for this patch ? We are hoping that the entire
> > > > series can be merged at one go.
> > >
> > > It would be nice to get this in for v5.3 as it's almost there.
> > > Are you fine with these changes ?
> > >
> >
> > Do you have any objections with this patch ? We plan to merge through
> > RISC-V tree, please let us know. It has been acked-by all the other
> > maintainers.
>
> I have no interest in the CPU topology code; as far as I know I have
> no systems that are able to exercise this code in any way. Therefore,
> I don't know this code, I have no way to test it, and so it is not
> appropriate for me to ack patches for it.
>

I completely understand that and we can take care of testing. As along
as you don't have objections to this, that should be fine I believe.

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Regards,
Sudeep