Re: [PATCH 00/32] RISC-V Kendryte K210 support improvments

Damien Le Moal
2020-11-09T12:55:46Z

On 2020/11/09 21:51, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 07, 2020 at 05:13:48PM +0900, Damien Le Moal wrote:
>
>> The first patch of this series is a fix of the device tree parsing code.
>> Without this fix, a warning is generated when parsing Designware gpio
>> controller nodes.
>
>> The following 6 patches are fixes and improvements to the Designware SPI
>> driver to enable support for the MMC-spi slot found on all K210 boards.
>
>> Pathes 8 to 13 are various fixes for riscv arch code and riscv
>> dependent devices. Of not here is patch 11 which fix system call
>> execution in the no MMU case, and patch 13 which simplifies DTB builtin
>> handling.
>
>> The following patches 14 to 25 implement and document idevice tree
>> mapping of several drivers for the K210 SoC: clock driver, reset
>> controller and pin function management (pinctrl).
>
>> Patches 26 to 31 update the existing K210 device tree and device new
>> device tree files for several K210 based boards: the MAIX Bit,
>> MAIXSUINO, MAIX Dock and MAIX Go boards from SiPeed and the KD233
>> development board from Kendryte.
>
> Please don't mix unrelated changes into a single series like this -
> patch serieses this big are generally something to be avoided at the
> best of times since they're a bit overwhelming in people's inboxes and
> when unrelated changes are put in a single series it makes dependencies
> between patches unclear which can hold things up. It is better to send
> the changes for each subsystem separately, it makes life easier all
> round.

I wondered about it and in retrospect, it was a bad idea indeed to send
everything to everyone. My apologies about that.
I need to send a V2 but this time I will split it up by subsystem. Some patches
are related however (e.g. DT changes and documentation), so I will keep these
together.

Thanks !

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Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research