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=-5.4 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,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 415A0C43461 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2020 04:07:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA32F20732 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2020 04:07:50 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=linaro.org header.i=@linaro.org header.b="azE3P0Ag" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726172AbgIPEHr (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Sep 2020 00:07:47 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:48984 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726134AbgIPEHl (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Sep 2020 00:07:41 -0400 Received: from mail-pl1-x644.google.com (mail-pl1-x644.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20::644]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3E6E9C061788 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 2020 21:07:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-pl1-x644.google.com with SMTP id d19so2469819pld.0 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 2020 21:07:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linaro.org; s=google; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=dwWRnwsGGp42nHyvHYAmDpO5pglBD8pM8+TllXGj8yw=; b=azE3P0AgP3hJEcsTJJpcq0kIrViiGK//UpvP9mqGA6o40Im531SZGBXDNgnQdFS3PB wBCQl6lf/X1c/KmzDFSGjQhPvl+ui4vi1DTHra//aKQqCOMx8rU4ZI2IcpNPGy5hJh1s oolKtRnBa+gwzgRn2I9Fk8M92A3huwHa60D59WywFue23XD3CbogiTSRJB5lM1HAF7HC PIuQd07NRFHwCY0YohAqIBDoJS6l38o4j18aL6BqCj5n04A2ExKWKIcmud0lQSHTYLK+ dfwV5huTCPPK4WMt25naEXT7bSYfyZ3JpWQeZPyP/M9Bm5r150kgss0Edr7XTPH6nKn9 2pJw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:date:from:to:subject:message-id:references :mime-version:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=dwWRnwsGGp42nHyvHYAmDpO5pglBD8pM8+TllXGj8yw=; b=XIr0AJQZOU94jwXXpoLlR2weJMOLe2am3heEjerQNpahNnE3EFXUKBT+/pO4EE9QXA ZyJYy7NNi8zsqc8xzwSXmBoteOuOXuJZdyU3WDS5LqHGTMnJV3lgFVlJI/xKPS+m3EAH 2VoPux6SgXzdRexFaeyQ59NYduAQ4ikMNElkU9eaAtDGWMhePxeV5eImexI0oMVQ0Egn 9f12Giv+B5dqmm+pb59VcScmvDbZdKMUcpR62Tut8KB/AuC3f8g3N4NSAgq/p3OzD95A 4DEUT9HS+wKhclBnamcC7M57031H6Le4oDkzs/y/EtMLXB7tEiTlot1dwnu4Sre5LDqz Gndw== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM532GZfG8MpFvpd57mfWiao56/OE3BLcgv5dODwVYQ4wvWK63rvR+ R6Jmu4EPB/7j/kjVFbCnDfIY X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJxWtRMMr2pHjJ+1V7e9unODZq5jgqDHwWcJ1/MX6MPAFMT/ZxHjurIf9f4zyw22ZxVRjrPxYQ== X-Received: by 2002:a17:90b:3241:: with SMTP id jy1mr2307220pjb.10.1600229259610; Tue, 15 Sep 2020 21:07:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from linux ([103.59.133.81]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 131sm15062480pfc.20.2020.09.15.21.07.36 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Tue, 15 Sep 2020 21:07:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 09:37:32 +0530 From: Manivannan Sadhasivam To: wg@grandegger.com, mkl@pengutronix.de, robh+dt@kernel.org, linux-can@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, o.rempel@pengutronix.de Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Add support for MCP25XXFD SPI-CAN Network driver Message-ID: <20200916040732.GA4281@linux> References: <20200910133806.25077-1-manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org> <20200915161925.GA5660@linux> <20200915175838.GA12860@x1.vandijck-laurijssen.be> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200915175838.GA12860@x1.vandijck-laurijssen.be> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28) Sender: devicetree-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: devicetree@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 07:58:38PM +0200, Kurt Van Dijck wrote: > On di, 15 sep 2020 21:49:25 +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 07:08:00PM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Just a quick question: I don't see any activity on this specific driver for > > sometime (back in Martin days itself). Is it due to lack of reviewers or > > it is due to the patch size (lines of code) so that nobody is interested > > in reviewing? > > If you look around, there are currently several versions of mcp251x > driver around, shipped by hardware vendors who glue the chip on there > SOM etc. > Until something more-or-less clean becomes mainline, the effort remains > spread. > > A problem to import a complete driver is that ... its complete. > There was an suggestion to split into several patches, but that does not > really affect the review work. > > The original driver failed to initialize under a loaded CAN bus, on my > desk. The current driver is more cleanly written than the original > and it seems to survive more than 1 use case (although I have a MAB overflow > report pending to investigate). > So, this is a good candidate for mainline. > I just saw that you've pushed these patches to your testing branch. Does this mean that you're going to include it in v5.10 PR? Thanks, Mani > Kind regards, > Kurt