From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Cameron Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 00/18] Introduce the Counter subsystem Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2019 12:49:36 +0100 Message-ID: <20190427124937.1a9920ea@archlinux> References: <20190407152550.451a7f63@archlinux> <20190425193624.GA11240@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20190425193624.GA11240@kroah.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Greg KH Cc: William Breathitt Gray , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, fabrice.gasnier@st.com, benjamin.gaignard@st.com, knaack.h@gmx.de, lars@metafoo.de, pmeerw@pmeerw.net, akpm@linux-foundation.org, david@lechnology.com, robh+dt@kernel.org, mark.rutland@arm.com, shawnguo@kernel.org, leoyang.li@nxp.com, daniel.lezcano@linaro.org, tglx@linutronix.de, thierry.reding@gmail.com, esben@haabendal.dk, linux-pwm@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, patrick.havelange@essensium.com, linux-api@vger.kernel.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 25 Apr 2019 21:36:24 +0200 Greg KH wrote: > On Sun, Apr 07, 2019 at 03:25:50PM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Apr 2019 15:30:35 +0900 > > William Breathitt Gray wrote: > > > > > Changes in v10: > > > - Fix minor typographical errors in documentation > > > - Merge the FlexTimer Module Quadrature decoder counter driver patches > > > > > > This revision is functionally identical to the last; changes in this > > > version were made to fix minor typos in the documentation files and also > > > to pull in the new FTM quadrature decoder counter driver. > > > > > > The Generic Counter API has been and is still in a feature freeze until > > > it is merged into the mainline. The following features will be > > > investigated after the merge: interrupt support for counter devices, and > > > a character device interface for low-latency applications. > > > > Hi William / al, > > > > So the question is how to move this forwards? I'm happy with how it turned > > out and the existing drivers we had in IIO are a lot cleaner under > > the counter subsystem (other than the backwards compatibility for those that > > ever existed in IIO). For those not following closely the situation is: > > I've now sucked this into my staging-testing branch and if 0-day is fine > with it, I'll merge it to staging-next in a day or so. This way you can > build on it for any iio drivers that might be coming. Great thanks. > > I do have reservations about that one sysfs file that is multi-line, and > I think it will come to bite you in the end over time, so I reserve the > right to say "I told you so" when that happens... > > But, I don't have a better answer for it now, so don't really worry > about it :) > > thanks, > > greg k-h Looks like a few late breaking comments came in, but nothing that can't be fixed up before this reaches a release. Thanks, Jonathan