Re: [PATCH v7 01/12] acpi/numa: Establish a new drivers/acpi/numa/ directory

Rafael J. Wysocki
2019-10-22T10:01:56Z

On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 11:25 AM Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 3:13 AM Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > Currently hmat.c lives under an "hmat" directory which does not enhance
> > the description of the file. The initial motivation for giving hmat.c
> > its own directory was to delineate it as mm functionality in contrast to
> > ACPI device driver functionality.
> >
> > As ACPI continues to play an increasing role in conveying
> > memory location and performance topology information to the OS take the
> > opportunity to co-locate these NUMA relevant tables in a combined
> > directory.
> >
> > numa.c is renamed to srat.c and moved to drivers/acpi/numa/ along with
> > hmat.c.
> >
> > Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
> > Cc: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
> > Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
>
> Please note that https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11078171/ is being
> pushed to Linus (it is overdue anyway), so if it is pulled, there will
> be a merge conflict with this patch.
>
> Respin maybe?

Actually, would you mind it if I took this one into the ACPI tree right away?

There's https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11198373/ queued up that,
again, will clash with it.

Also, there is the generic Initiator proximity domains series from
Jonathan depending on it and I would like to move forward with that
one if there are no objections.