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

["Cédric Le Goater" <clg@kaod.org>]

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 :

   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.

Thanks,

C.