Re: [PATCH v4] spi: add Renesas RPC-IF driver

Sergei Shtylyov
2020-06-16T09:26:57Z

On 16.06.2020 11:38, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 11:24:55AM +0300, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
>> On 16.06.2020 2:41, Mark Brown wrote:
>
>>> All being well this means that it will be integrated into the linux-next
>>> tree (usually sometime in the next 24 hours) and sent to Linus during
>>> the next merge window (or sooner if it is a bug fix), however if
>>> problems are discovered then the patch may be dropped or reverted.
>
>> You realize that the SPI driver won't build alone, w/o the
>> drivers/memory/ core driver merged, right?
>
> Those aren't merged yet? There was no mention of any dependencies in
> the patch, no feedback for months on the patch and I've not seen any
> ongoing discussion.

I thought the below passage was speaking for itself:

<<
It's the "front end" driver using the "back end" APIs in the main driver to
talk to the real hardware."
>>

Sorry for not being clear enough...

MBR, Sergei