Re: [patch V2 01/23] powerpc/4xx: Remove MSI support which never worked

Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-07T20:42:27Z

Cedric,

On Tue, Dec 07 2021 at 16:50, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> On 12/7/21 12:36, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>>
>> This patch should drop those selects I guess. Can you send an
>> incremental diff for Thomas to squash in?
>
> Sure.
>
>> Removing all the tendrils in various device tree files will probably
>> require some archaeology, and it should be perfectly safe to leave those
>> in the tree with the driver gone. So I think we can do that as a
>> subsequent patch, rather than in this series.
>
> Here are the changes. Compiled tested with ppc40x and ppc44x defconfigs.

< Lots of patch skipped />
> @@ -141,7 +138,6 @@ config REDWOOD
> select FORCE_PCI
> select PPC4xx_PCI_EXPRESS
> select PCI_MSI
> - select PPC4xx_MSI
> help
> This option enables support for the AMCC PPC460SX Redwood board.

While that is incremental it certainly is worth a patch on it's
own. Could you add a proper changelog and an SOB please?

Thanks,

tglx