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V" , "Oliver O'Halloran" , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Paul Mackerras , Michael Ellerman , Frederic Barrat , Andrew Donnellan , Arnd Bergmann , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Vishal Verma , Dave Jiang , Ira Weiny , Andrew Morton , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , "David S. Miller" , Rob Herring , Anton Blanchard , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Mahesh Salgaonkar , Madhavan Srinivasan , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?C=E9dric?= Le Goater , Anju T Sudhakar , Hari Bathini , Thomas Gleixner , Greg Kurz , Nicholas Piggin , Masahiro Yamada , Alexey Kardashevskiy , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linuxppc-dev , linux-nvdimm , Linux MM Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 15:42:54 +1100 In-Reply-To: <20200224043750.GM24185@bombadil.infradead.org> References: <20200221032720.33893-1-alastair@au1.ibm.com> <240fbefc6275ac0a6f2aa68715b3b73b0e7a8310.camel@au1.ibm.com> <20200224043750.GM24185@bombadil.infradead.org> Organization: IBM Australia Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" User-Agent: Evolution 3.34.3 (3.34.3-1.fc31) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 x-cbid: 20022404-0008-0000-0000-00000355CAB3 X-IBM-AV-DETECTION: SAVI=unused REMOTE=unused XFE=unused x-cbparentid: 20022404-0009-0000-0000-00004A76E1C2 Message-Id: <83034494d5c3da1fa63b172e844f85d0fec7910a.camel@au1.ibm.com> X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10434:6.0.138,18.0.572 definitions=2020-02-23_07:2020-02-21,2020-02-23 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 lowpriorityscore=0 adultscore=0 mlxlogscore=679 suspectscore=0 spamscore=0 priorityscore=1501 impostorscore=0 mlxscore=0 malwarescore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 clxscore=1015 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.12.0-2001150001 definitions=main-2002240039 X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: On Sun, 2020-02-23 at 20:37 -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 03:34:07PM +1100, Alastair D'Silva wrote: > > V3: > > - Rebase against next/next-20200220 > > - Move driver to arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv, we now expect > > this > > driver to go upstream via the powerpc tree > > That's rather the opposite direction of normal; mostly drivers live > under > drivers/ and not in arch/. It's easier for drivers to get overlooked > when doing tree-wide changes if they're hiding. This is true, however, given that it was not all that desirable to have it under drivers/nvdimm, it's sister driver (for the same hardware) is also under arch, and that we don't expect this driver to be used on any platform other than powernv, we think this was the most reasonable place to put it. -- Alastair D'Silva Open Source Developer Linux Technology Centre, IBM Australia mob: 0423 762 819