Re: [PATCH v4 0/7] staging: fsl-mc: New functionality to the MC bus driver

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 03:01:22PM +0000, Jose Rivera wrote:
> Greg, 
> 
> Thanks for your feedback. It is our fault that we did not articulate
> clearly our intent with this patch series. First, for reference, let
> us summarize here the patches in question:
> 
> Patch 1: MC bus IRQ support
> Patch 2: add device binding path 'driver_override'
> Patch 3: Propagate driver_override for a child DPRC's children
> Patch 4: Upgraded MC bus driver to match MC fw 7.0.0
> Patch 5: Allow the MC bus driver to run without GIC support
> Patch 6: Add locking to serialize mc_send_command() calls
> Patch 7: Use DPMCP IRQ and completion var to wait for MC
> 
> With the exception of patches 2 and 3 (needed for vfio), our intent with
> the rest was to make to changes to work towards completing the "Add at
> least one device driver for a DPAA2 object" on the TODO list.

ah, missed that item, my fault.

> Before sending further patches we will submit an update to the TODO list
> to provide more detail and visibility into our plan to complete the
> "Add at least one device driver..." item.  It's too broad as written. 
> In particular, we think interrupt support is required and a pre-requisite.

Ok, that sounds good, please do.

thanks,

greg k-h