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From: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
To: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: "JBottomley@odin.com" <JBottomley@odin.com>,
	"robh+dt@kernel.org" <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	"pawel.moll@arm.com" <pawel.moll@arm.com>,
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	"galak@codeaurora.org" <galak@codeaurora.org>,
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	"john.garry2@mail.dcu.ie" <john.garry2@mail.dcu.ie>,
	"hare@suse.de" <hare@suse.de>, "xuwei (O)" <xuwei5@hisilicon.com>,
	"zhangfei.gao@linaro.org" <zhangfei.gao@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 00/32] HiSilicon SAS driver
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 09:46:56 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <564D9A90.2070304@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yq1io4yptmi.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net>

On 19/11/2015 03:15, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
>>>>>> "John" == John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com> writes:
>
> John> thanks, please note that we still have the dependency on
> John> http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg452833.html
>
> John> Without it the driver can only be built into the kernel, and not
> John> as a module.
>
> I have your driver in a staging branch rather than the main 4.5 SCSI
> queue because I wanted to see what kind of additional fallout I'd get
> from the zeroday testing.
>
> It's not a problem for me to wait for that patch to go in (or take it
> through SCSI if that makes things easier).
>

The issue is the I don't know if Rob will approve the requested patch.

As an alternative I can make my driver not depend on it. So I could make 
a v6 patchset or just send a supplementary patch on top of v5 patchset.

Thanks,
John

      reply	other threads:[~2015-11-19  9:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-17 16:50 [PATCH v5 00/32] HiSilicon SAS driver John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50 ` John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50 ` [PATCH v5 01/32] [SCSI] sas: centralise ssp frame information units John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50   ` John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50 ` [PATCH v5 02/32] devicetree: bindings: scsi: HiSi SAS John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50   ` John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50 ` [PATCH v5 03/32] scsi: hisi_sas: add initial bare main driver John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50   ` John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50 ` [PATCH v5 04/32] scsi: hisi_sas: add scsi host registration John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50   ` John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50 ` [PATCH v5 05/32] scsi: hisi_sas: scan device tree John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50   ` John Garry
     [not found] ` <1447779059-136143-1-git-send-email-john.garry-hv44wF8Li93QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2015-11-17 16:50   ` [PATCH v5 06/32] scsi: hisi_sas: add HW DMA structures John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50     ` John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50   ` [PATCH v5 14/32] scsi: hisi_sas: add hisi sas device type John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50     ` John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50   ` [PATCH v5 26/32] scsi: hisi_sas: add bcast interrupt handler John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50     ` John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50   ` [PATCH v5 28/32] scsi: hisi_sas: add scan finished and start John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50     ` John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50 ` [PATCH v5 07/32] scsi: hisi_sas: allocate memories and create pools John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50   ` John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50 ` [PATCH v5 08/32] scsi: hisi_sas: add hisi_sas_remove John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50   ` John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50 ` [PATCH v5 09/32] scsi: hisi_sas: add slot init code John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50   ` John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50 ` [PATCH v5 10/32] scsi: hisi_sas: add cq structure initialization John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50   ` John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50 ` [PATCH v5 11/32] scsi: hisi_sas: add phy SAS ADDR initialization John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50   ` John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50 ` [PATCH v5 12/32] scsi: hisi_sas: set dev DMA mask John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50   ` John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50 ` [PATCH v5 13/32] scsi: hisi_sas: add hisi_hba workqueue John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50   ` John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50 ` [PATCH v5 15/32] scsi: hisi_sas: add phy and port init John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50   ` John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50 ` [PATCH v5 16/32] scsi: hisi_sas: add timer and spinlock init John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50   ` John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50 ` [PATCH v5 17/32] scsi: hisi_sas: add v1 hw module init John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50   ` John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50 ` [PATCH v5 18/32] scsi: hisi_sas: add v1 hardware register definitions John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50   ` John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50 ` [PATCH v5 19/32] scsi: hisi_sas: add v1 HW initialisation code John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50   ` John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50 ` [PATCH v5 20/32] scsi: hisi_sas: add v1 hw interrupt init John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50   ` John Garry
     [not found]   ` <1447779059-136143-21-git-send-email-john.garry-hv44wF8Li93QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2015-11-18 15:26     ` Rob Herring
2015-11-18 15:26       ` Rob Herring
2015-11-18 16:13       ` John Garry
2015-11-18 16:13         ` John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50 ` [PATCH v5 21/32] scsi: hisi_sas: add path from phyup irq to SAS framework John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50   ` John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50 ` [PATCH v5 22/32] scsi: hisi_sas: add ssp command function John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50   ` John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50 ` [PATCH v5 23/32] scsi: hisi_sas: add cq interrupt handler John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50   ` John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50 ` [PATCH v5 24/32] scsi: hisi_sas: add dev_found and dev_gone John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50   ` John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50 ` [PATCH v5 25/32] scsi: hisi_sas: add abnormal irq handler John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50   ` John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50 ` [PATCH v5 27/32] scsi: hisi_sas: add smp protocol support John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50   ` John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50 ` [PATCH v5 29/32] scsi: hisi_sas: add tmf methods John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50   ` John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50 ` [PATCH v5 30/32] scsi: hisi_sas: add control phy handler John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50   ` John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50 ` [PATCH v5 31/32] scsi: hisi_sas: add fatal irq handler John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50   ` John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50 ` [PATCH v5 32/32] MAINTAINERS: add maintainer for HiSi SAS driver John Garry
2015-11-17 16:50   ` John Garry
2015-11-18 16:56 ` [PATCH v5 00/32] HiSilicon " Martin K. Petersen
2015-11-18 16:56   ` Martin K. Petersen
2015-11-18 17:23   ` John Garry
2015-11-19  3:15     ` Martin K. Petersen
2015-11-19  3:15       ` Martin K. Petersen
2015-11-19  9:46       ` John Garry [this message]

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