Re: [RFC 1/4] PCI: Add Thunderbolt device IDs

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 02:11:35PM +0100, Lukas Wunner wrote:
> Hi Bjorn,
> 
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 10:03:20AM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 03:50:35PM +0100, Lukas Wunner wrote:
> > > Gen 1 and 2 chips use the same ID for NHI, bridges and switch.
> > > Gen 3 chips and onward use a distinct ID for the NHI.
> > 
> > I assume this is strictly using #defines instead of bare numbers and
> > hence "no functional change intended."
> > 
> > > Cc: Andreas Noever <andreas.noever@gmail.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
> > 
> > Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
> 
> Thanks, I've just posted a 3 patch series to support the Light Ridge
> Thunderbolt controller and included your ack for this patch.
> 
> 
> > I assume somebody else will merge this with the rest of the series.
> 
> The maintainer of the thunderbolt driver is Andreas Noever, however
> I don't think Andreas sends pull requests to Linus. Everything in
> drivers/thunderbolt/ has so far been picked up by Greg KH.
> 
> I have more thunderbolt stuff in the pipeline, some of which needs
> changes to drivers/pci/. Therefore it would be ideal from my perspective
> if my thunderbolt patches could go in via your tree, if that is possible.

I have no objection if they go through the PCI tree, especially as
Thunderbolt really just is PCI express, it makes sense to take them that
way.

thanks,

greg k-h