From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.2 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39B4FC388F9 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2020 14:35:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8338222E9 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2020 14:35:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2443018AbgJUOfT (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Oct 2020 10:35:19 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:50760 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2443017AbgJUOfT (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Oct 2020 10:35:19 -0400 Received: from gaia (unknown [95.145.162.19]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D32512224E; Wed, 21 Oct 2020 14:35:16 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2020 15:35:13 +0100 From: Catalin Marinas To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Qais Yousef , Will Deacon , Marc Zyngier , "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" , Morten Rasmussen , Linus Torvalds , James Morse , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/4] Add support for Asymmetric AArch32 systems Message-ID: <20201021143513.GE3976@gaia> References: <20201021104611.2744565-1-qais.yousef@arm.com> <20201021112656.GB1141598@kroah.com> <20201021131504.vc3nbf2vt5dtiuva@e107158-lin> <20201021133105.GA1164216@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20201021133105.GA1164216@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 03:31:05PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 02:15:04PM +0100, Qais Yousef wrote: > > > Without even looking at the patch set, this is not ok... > > > > Sorry about that. Please keep in mind we're still debating if we want to > > support this upstream. > > What do you mean by this? > > Do you mean you will keep an out-of-tree patchset for all time for all > future kernel versions for everyone to pull from and you will support > for all chips that end up with this type of functionality? > > That's a huge task to do, you all must have a lot of money to burn! >From a maintainer perspective (and not as an Arm employee), hopefully the high cost would be a deterrent to other such hardware combinations in the future ;). Even if it will (likely) end up in mainline, we shouldn't make it straightforward. -- Catalin