Re: [PATCH 5/6] gpio: Add new gpio-macsmc driver for Apple Macs

["Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>]

On Mon, Sep 05, 2022 at 03:01:09PM +0100, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 05, 2022 at 04:16:27PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 5, 2022 at 4:10 PM Russell King (Oracle)
> > <linux@armlinux.org.uk> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 05, 2022 at 01:32:29PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> > > Let me say again: I am not changing this. That's for Asahi people to
> > > do if they wish. I am the just middle-man here.
> > 
> > While I agree on technical aspects, this mythical "they" is
> > frustrating me. They haven't participated in this discussion (yet?) so
> > they do not care, why should we (as a community of upstream)?
> 
> That's strange. I wonder. If they don't exist, then I wonder how Linus
> is running Linux on aarch64 apple hardware. Maybe it's not me with a
> problem here?
> 
> Hector has been promising to get involved in this discussion for a few
> days now, his latest comment on IRC yesterday:
> 
> 16:23 <@marcan> I'm going to allocate tuesday to playing the merge game (rmk:
>                 haven't forgotten about you either, IRQs today, but I'll get to
>                 it before tuesday):
> 
> So he is aware that he needs to respond - but like any central project
> lead developer, he's probably exceedingly busy with other issues.
> 
> > P.S. Do you have a platform to test all these?
> 
> Yes, but that doesn't mean I can do testing sufficient to ensure that
> the modifications are correct. As I understand things, the SMC is not
> limited to just aarch64 hardware.
> 
> It doesn't mean that "if it boots it must be okay" is sufficient.
> 
> So, how about you stop insisting on changes until Hector can respond
> to some of the questions raised; as I've said many times, you are
> asking for stuff to be changed that is quite clearly in the realm of
> decisions that the Asahi developer(s) have taken, and I have no right
> to change them without reference to them - because I do not know this
> platform well enough to make the decisions you're asking of me.
> 
> I'm not going to say that again; I'm going to start ignoring you if
> you persist in demanding that I make these kinds of decisions, because
> *you* leave me no other option but to do that... because *you* just
> don't seem to be willing to accept that I need others to be involved
> in these decisions.

Oh, and another thing. Your behaviour on this is making me regret
trying to get involved in improving the upstream support for this
platform.

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