From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 13:37:53 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Julius Werner Cc: Guenter Roeck , Dmitry Torokhov , samuel@sholland.org, LKML , Coreboot Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] coreboot table bus and framebuffer driver Message-ID: <20180423113753.GA8630@kroah.com> References: <20180125014120.20851-1-samuel@sholland.org> <20180314180830.GA6311@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.5 (2018-04-13) X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 09:22:04PM +0000, Julius Werner wrote: > [resend in plain text] > > > It would be great to get some of the google developers to ack these, as > > this touches their code... > > From the coreboot point of view I guess we're fine with it since it claims > to maintain all of the existing functionality. It's just changing the > kernel-level plumbing for these drivers and I don't really have the > expertise to comment on whether this is better or worse than the old code > (maybe Dmitry or Guenter will?). It seems a little odd to me to call this a > "bus", but if we think that's the most fitting abstraction the kernel has > for it, I'm okay with that. All I care about is that it will work (in all > combinations... e.g. regardless of probe order and even if some parts are > compiled as modules and loaded/unloaded at runtime). Thanks for the response, patches are all now queued up. greg k-h