From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from na01-bl2-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com (mail-bl2lp0208.outbound.protection.outlook.com [207.46.163.208]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 53BE11401AE for ; Thu, 8 May 2014 14:42:39 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <536B08B6.6030909@Freescale.com> Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 23:31:50 -0500 From: Emil Medve MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Wood Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] powerpc/corenet: Create the dts components for the DPAA FMan References: <1397823693-27977-1-git-send-email-Shruti@Freescale.com> <1397823693-27977-4-git-send-email-Shruti@Freescale.com> <1398118262.1694.188.camel__8135.6513932862$1398128944$gmane$org@snotra.buserror.net> <5364BEB3.6000904@Freescale.com> <1399332359.15726.154.camel@snotra.buserror.net> <53687913.70900@Freescale.com> <1399431248.15726.255.camel@snotra.buserror.net> <536AF8C7.8080304@Freescale.com> <1399520191.15726.371.camel@snotra.buserror.net> In-Reply-To: <1399520191.15726.371.camel@snotra.buserror.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Shruti Kanetkar , "linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org" List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Hello Scott, On 05/07/2014 10:36 PM, Scott Wood wrote: > On Wed, 2014-05-07 at 22:23 -0500, Emil Medve wrote: >> Hello Scott, >> >> >> At this point, I'm getting a bit lost in this thread and I feel we're >> getting into more generic comments. I'll continue to answer to some of >> your comments to make sure I understand them. However, one major comment >> I feel you made was about seeing a full FMan binding. If that's a deal >> breaker, please let me know and we'll just drop the patches > > It's not an absolute deal breaker -- I did suggest the possibility of > providing the mdio node as an ordinary ccsr node, not underneath an fman > container. I know you've done something similar in Topaz, but you had other reasons for it > I'm just frustrated that getting a proper fman node is such a big deal. > That should have been the first step of the upstreaming process -- not > something that waits until everything is finished. We started upstreaming MDIO (Timur before us) because of this frustration. We thought this might help in terms of motivation with making progress on the FMan upstreaming Cheers, From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Emil Medve Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] powerpc/corenet: Create the dts components for the DPAA FMan Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 23:31:50 -0500 Message-ID: <536B08B6.6030909@Freescale.com> References: <1397823693-27977-1-git-send-email-Shruti@Freescale.com> <1397823693-27977-4-git-send-email-Shruti@Freescale.com> <1398118262.1694.188.camel__8135.6513932862$1398128944$gmane$org@snotra.buserror.net> <5364BEB3.6000904@Freescale.com> <1399332359.15726.154.camel@snotra.buserror.net> <53687913.70900@Freescale.com> <1399431248.15726.255.camel@snotra.buserror.net> <536AF8C7.8080304@Freescale.com> <1399520191.15726.371.camel@snotra.buserror.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1399520191.15726.371.camel-88ow+0ZRuxG2UiBs7uKeOtHuzzzSOjJt@public.gmane.org> Sender: devicetree-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Scott Wood Cc: Shruti Kanetkar , devicetree-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, "linuxppc-dev-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org" List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org Hello Scott, On 05/07/2014 10:36 PM, Scott Wood wrote: > On Wed, 2014-05-07 at 22:23 -0500, Emil Medve wrote: >> Hello Scott, >> >> >> At this point, I'm getting a bit lost in this thread and I feel we're >> getting into more generic comments. I'll continue to answer to some of >> your comments to make sure I understand them. However, one major comment >> I feel you made was about seeing a full FMan binding. If that's a deal >> breaker, please let me know and we'll just drop the patches > > It's not an absolute deal breaker -- I did suggest the possibility of > providing the mdio node as an ordinary ccsr node, not underneath an fman > container. I know you've done something similar in Topaz, but you had other reasons for it > I'm just frustrated that getting a proper fman node is such a big deal. > That should have been the first step of the upstreaming process -- not > something that waits until everything is finished. We started upstreaming MDIO (Timur before us) because of this frustration. We thought this might help in terms of motivation with making progress on the FMan upstreaming Cheers, -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html