Re: [PATCH] riscv: move sifive_l2_cache.c to drivers/soc

From: Yash Shah
Date: Tue Aug 20 2019 - 02:04:50 EST


On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 11:56 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 08:09:04AM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 10:29:35AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > The sifive_l2_cache.c is in no way related to RISC-V architecture
> > > memory management. It is a little stub driver working around the fact
> > > that the EDAC maintainers prefer their drivers to be structured in a
> > > certain way
> >
> > That changed recently so I guess we can do the per-IP block driver after
> > all, if people would still prefer it.
>
> That would seem like the best idea. But I don't really know this code
> well enough myself, and I really need to get this code out of the
> forced on RISC-V codebase as some SOCs I'm working with simply don't
> have the memory for it..
>
> So unless someone signs up to do a per-IP block edac drivers instead
> very quickly I'd still like to see something like this go into 5.4
> for now.

As of now, we can pull this patch into 5.4. Later, I will review if
per-IP block edac driver is needed and if so, will take care of
implementing it.

- Yash