Re: [PATCH 00/17] ppc/pnv: enable pnv-phb4 user devices

[Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>]

On 1/3/22 18:20, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> On 1/3/22 19:58, Daniel Henrique Barboza wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 1/3/22 05:21, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
>>> Hello Daniel,
>>>
>>> On 12/28/21 20:37, Daniel Henrique Barboza wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> This series implements pnv-phb4 user devices for the powernv9 machine.
>>>> It also includes a couple of pnv-phb3 and pnv-phb3-root-port fixes that
>>>> were also applied for the pnv4 equivalents.
>>>>
>>>> During the enablement I had to rollback from the previously added
>>>> support for user creatable pnv-phb4-pec devices. The most important
>>>> reason is user experience. PEC devices that doesn't spawn the PHB
>>>> devices will be just a placeholder to add PHBs, having no use of their
>>>> own as far as the user sees it. From this standpoint it makes more sense
>>>> to just create all PECs and attach the PHBs the user wants on them.
>>>> Patch 14 also describes technical reasons to rollback this support.
>>>>
>>>> The series is rebased using Cedric's 'powernv-6.2' branch [1]i, which
>>>> includes the '[PATCH 0/5] ppc/pnv: Preliminary cleanups before user
>>>> created PHBs' patches [2].
>>>
>>> It would be easier if you based the patchset on mainline. It's not
>>> a problem to resend patches of another person or/and even rework
>>> them to fit your needs.
>>
>> Sure, I'll send the v2 based on the mainline + the required patches.
> 
> Let me merge a couple first. It should reduce the overhead. I will drop
> these :

No problem. I'll re-send the v2 after the merge.

> 
>    ppc/pnv: Attach PHB3 root port device when defaults are enabled
>    ppc/pnv: Attach PHB4 root port device when defaults are enabled
> 
> They are in the way for your changes.


I`ll drop these in my side as well.


Thanks,


Daniel







> 
> Thanks,
> 
> C.