Re: [PATCH 2/6] soc: qcom: qpace: Add Qualcomm Page Compression Engine driver

[Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>]

On 07/10/2026 01:51, Oreoluwa Babatunde wrote:
> On 10/1/2026 1:50 AM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 30, 2026 at 07:52:11AM -0700, Georgi Djakov wrote:
>>> Add a platform driver for the Qualcomm Page Compression Engine (QPaCE), a
>>> hardware block that accelerates compression and decompression of memory
>>> pages.
>>>
>>> Provide the urgent command path for synchronous single-page compression and
>>> decompression. This exposes the low-latency operations needed by
>>> compressed-memory users such as zram, especially for page decompression on
>>> the read path.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Georgi Djakov <georgi.djakov@oss.qualcomm.com>
>>> ---
>>>   drivers/soc/qcom/Kconfig          |  14 +
>>>   drivers/soc/qcom/Makefile         |   1 +
>>>   drivers/soc/qcom/qpace.c          | 764 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>   drivers/soc/qcom/qpace_internal.h |  84 ++++
>>>   include/linux/soc/qcom/qpace.h    | 154 ++++++
>>>   5 files changed, 1017 insertions(+)
>>>   create mode 100644 drivers/soc/qcom/qpace.c
>>>   create mode 100644 drivers/soc/qcom/qpace_internal.h
>>>   create mode 100644 include/linux/soc/qcom/qpace.h
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/soc/qcom/Kconfig b/drivers/soc/qcom/Kconfig
>>> index 535c8619197b..6bcb86dcd726 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/soc/qcom/Kconfig
>>
>> Sorry, but no. Soc is not a dumping ground. This has clear function of
>> compression offload, so it should have some dedicated maintainers like
>> other offload engines.
> 
> The reason for putting this in soc/qcom is because this is a qcom HW 

Every qcom HW driver is a qcom HW driver and they DO NOT go to drivers/soc.

Again: soc is not a dumping ground.

Best regards,
Krzysztof