Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] ARM: tegra: Add PCIe device tree support

[Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>]

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On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 11:02:18AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 08/01/2012 12:35 AM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 10:18:15AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> >> On 07/26/2012 01:55 PM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> >>> This patch series adds support for device tree based probing of
> >>> the PCIe controller found on Tegra SoCs.
> >> 
> >> Thierry,
> >> 
> >> I think one thing that would help here would be to split up this
> >> series into one per subsystem, and to get all the dependencies
> >> merged by the respective maintainers. Preferably, each subsystem
> >> would export a stable branch (perhaps consisting of just these
> >> patches) that I can then merge into the Tegra tree and use as a
> >> basis for the PCIe driver itself. Hopefully this approach will
> >> get more traction on all the non-Tegra changes. Does that sound
> >> like a good plan?
> > 
> > I don't understand. The series is already split up into
> > per-subsystem patches. I just didn't want to post them separately
> > so everybody on Cc would be able to see the big picture and the
> > reason why the patch was required.
> 
> There are separate patches that touch the different subsystems, but
> they're all scattered throughout the one series, rather than having e.g.:
> 
> * a series for the PCI tree
> * a series for the ARM core tree
> * a series for the OF/DT tree
> * a series for the Tegra tree, which indicates it depends on all of those.
> 
> I'm wondering if the reason you haven't seen much discussion/Acks from
> the maintainers of the non-Tegra trees is because this is a big scary
> series that touches a lot of stuff, and it's not necessarily clear for
> people unfamiliar with it why they're being CCd on it.

I see. If you think it'll help I can certainly split them up as you
suggested. I just thought it might be useful for everybody to know the
context. At least from my own experience I get annoyed when I'm Cc'ed
on a single patch in a larger series because it means I need to look
through other archives for the context.

Thierry

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