From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Cho KyongHo Subject: RE: [PATCH] iommu/exynos: Remove driver Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 09:17:25 +0900 Message-ID: <001301cf291a$233fdc70$69bf9550$@samsung.com> References: <1391716317-20300-1-git-send-email-olof@lixom.net> <52F4E481.3050902@samsung.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-reply-to: Content-language: ko Sender: linux-samsung-soc-owner@vger.kernel.org To: 'Olof Johansson' , 'Kukjin Kim' Cc: 'Marek Szyprowski' , 'Kyungmin Park' , 'Inki Dae' , linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org, 'Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz' , 'Joerg Roedel' , iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, 'Sean Paul' , 'Tomasz Figa' , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org > -----Original Message----- > From: Olof Johansson [mailto:olof@lixom.net] > Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 4:34 AM > > On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 10:21 PM, Kukjin Kim wrote: > > > Just adding KyongHo Cho. > > > > If he can fixup for this time, it would be best solution because he knows > > well than others, I think. > > It's not so much a matter of "fixup for this time", it's a about > having ownership of the driver, making sure it works (and keeps > working if there is related development). The posted patches have not > been followed through on and the result is a broken driver. :( > > I definitely appreciate his expertise, and we should make sure that he > gets to review the code, but if someone else is able to spend time on > reworking the driver (or rewriting a newer one) and maintaining it > longer-term, then we should not stop them from doing so. And there is > no reason to keep broken stale code in the kernel meanwhile. > Thank you for your concerning. I also definitely agree with you that the driver must work. I am always concerning about it but it was not easy to make some time for the patches. I will continue to post the next version of patches, of course. I think it is not far from now to show it. Regards, Ky0ongHo From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: pullip.cho@samsung.com (Cho KyongHo) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 09:17:25 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] iommu/exynos: Remove driver In-Reply-To: References: <1391716317-20300-1-git-send-email-olof@lixom.net> <52F4E481.3050902@samsung.com> Message-ID: <001301cf291a$233fdc70$69bf9550$@samsung.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org > -----Original Message----- > From: Olof Johansson [mailto:olof at lixom.net] > Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 4:34 AM > > On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 10:21 PM, Kukjin Kim wrote: > > > Just adding KyongHo Cho. > > > > If he can fixup for this time, it would be best solution because he knows > > well than others, I think. > > It's not so much a matter of "fixup for this time", it's a about > having ownership of the driver, making sure it works (and keeps > working if there is related development). The posted patches have not > been followed through on and the result is a broken driver. :( > > I definitely appreciate his expertise, and we should make sure that he > gets to review the code, but if someone else is able to spend time on > reworking the driver (or rewriting a newer one) and maintaining it > longer-term, then we should not stop them from doing so. And there is > no reason to keep broken stale code in the kernel meanwhile. > Thank you for your concerning. I also definitely agree with you that the driver must work. I am always concerning about it but it was not easy to make some time for the patches. I will continue to post the next version of patches, of course. I think it is not far from now to show it. Regards, Ky0ongHo