Re: [PATCH 00/17] Prepare the PowerQUICC QMC and TSA for the HDLC QMC driver

Arnd Bergmann
2023-11-29T14:09:43Z

On Tue, Nov 28, 2023, at 15:07, Herve Codina wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This series updates PowerQUICC QMC and TSA drivers to prepare the
> support for the QMC HDLC driver.
>
> Patches were previously sent as part of a full feature series:
> "Add support for QMC HDLC, framer infrastructure and PEF2256 framer" [1]
>
> The full feature series reached the v9 iteration.
> The v1 was sent the 07/25/2023 followed by the other iterations
> (07/26/2023, 08/09/2023, 08/18/2023, 09/12/2023, 09/22/2023, 09/28/2023,
> 10/11/23, 11/15/2023) and was ready to be merged in its v8.
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kernel/20231025123215.5caca7d4@kernel.org/
>
> The lack of feedback from the Freescale SoC and the Quicc Engine
> maintainers (i.e. drivers/soc/fsl/qe/ to which the QMC and TSA drivers
> belong) blocks the entire full feature series.
> These patches are fixes and improvements to TSA and QMC drivers.
> These drivers were previously acked by Li Yang but without any feedback
> from Li Yang nor Qiang Zhao the series cannot move forward.
>
> In order to ease the review/merge, the full feature series has been
> split and this series contains patches related to the PowerQUICC SoC
> part (QMC and TSA).
> - Perform some fixes (patches 1 to 5)
> - Add support for child devices (patch 6)
> - Add QMC dynamic timeslot support (patches 7 to 17)
>
> From the original full feature series, a patches extraction without any
> modification was done.

I took a rough look at the entire series and only have a few
minor comments to one patch, otherwise it looks fine to me.

I would still prefer for Li Yang to merge the patches and
send the pull request to soc@kernel.org, but if this also
gets stalled because of lack of feedback and there are no
objections to the content, you can send a PR there yourself.

Arnd