Re: [PATCH v51 5/7] firmware: imx: adds miscdev

[Frieder Schrempf <frieder.schrempf@kontron.de>]

On 16.09.26 16:39, Frank Li wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2026 at 03:16:13PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 14, 2026, at 21:40, pankaj.gupta@oss.nxp.com wrote:
>>> From: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta@nxp.com>
>>>
>>> Adds the driver for communication interface to secure-enclave, that
>>> enables exchanging messages with NXP secure enclave HW IP(s)
>>> like EdgeLock Enclave, from:
>>> - User-Space Applications via character driver.
>>>
>>> ABI documentation for the NXP secure-enclave driver.
>>
>> I just saw this in linux-next, where it has caused a build failure
>> for a missing include of linux/slab.h. I hadn't see the series
>> before (even though it is a v51, which seems crazy), but I am
> 
> It is in linux-next about v37, but build bot find many problems, I dropped
> it and request to fix it. And sashiko is online recently and also find many
> risk. I request to clean up it, and local AI environment have difference
> with sashiko, so bump to v51.
> 
> I put to linux-next again to make sure that pass all build test.
> 
> Other two problems, need more time to check whole review history. reply
> you later.

So this is still in linux-next, but was not sent in the pull request for
7.4. It's rather confusing to me that maintainers add stuff to
linux-next for build-testing and then leave it there, neither removing
it, nor continuing the mainlining process.

Frank, what is the plan?

I'm currently rebasing my work for the NVMEM driver onto linux-next, but
as there have been so many iterations and this whole thing took so long,
I want to make sure that this is not another dead end where I'm wasting
my time on.