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

Rafael J. Wysocki
2019-10-28T15:12:54Z

On Tuesday, October 22, 2019 6:48:12 PM CET Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 3:02 AM Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> Given Ard has acked all the EFI core and ARM changes can we proceed
> with merging the EFI Specific Purpose Memory series through Rafael's
> tree? It would need acks from x86 maintainers.

In the face of the lack of responses here, I think I will apply this patch
alone and expose a stable branch containing it in case somebody else wants
to pull it in.

Thanks!