Re: [PATCH v4 00/18] PCI: dwc: Various fixes and cleanups

[Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 01:41:43PM +0300, Serge Semin wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 03:03:16PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 11:25:16AM +0300, Serge Semin wrote:
> > > This patchset is a first one in the series created in the framework of
> > > my Baikal-T1 PCIe/eDMA-related work:
> > > ...

> > This doesn't apply cleanly on v5.19-rc1 (my "main" branch).  v5.19-rc1
> > was tagged June 5, but apparently v4 was rebased to v5.18 and posted
> > June 10?  That's just a non-starter because many of these files were
> > changed during the merge window between v5.18 and v5.19-rc1.
> 
> Ok. I'll rebase it on top of v5.19-rcX on the next cycle.

I merge things on topic branches based on -rc1, so there's no benefit
to rebasing to anything past that (at least for me).  Normally it
doesn't matter because very little will change between -rc1 and -rcX.

> > I'll be looking for an ack from Jingoo and/or Gustavo, maintainers of
> > pcie-designware.c and related files.
> 
> Alas this will be very unluckily to happen. They have been inactive
> for more than four months on this and the rest of the patchsets
> (that's how long the patchsets have been hanging out on review).
> The last commit authored by Gustavo was the commit ce31ff786ddf
> ("PCI: dwc: Fix 'cast truncates bits from constant value'") posted
> in Sep 22, 2020 and no review activity afterwards. Jingoo' last
> ack was in Jun 25, 2019. So two and three years of silence accordingly
> doesn't give any hope on the sooner reaction from them.

Ok, thanks for the update.  I hadn't noticed that.

Bjorn