Re: [PATCH v12 1/5] can: m_can: Create a m_can platform framework - Marc Kleine-Budde

From: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, Dan Murphy <dmurphy@ti.com>
Cc: wg@grandegger.com, davem@davemloft.net,
	linux-can@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 1/5] can: m_can: Create a m_can platform framework
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 09:09:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <98b95fbe-adcc-c95f-7f3d-6c57122f4586@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190725062834.GC5647@kroah.com>

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On 7/25/19 8:28 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 10:36:02AM -0500, Dan Murphy wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> On 7/24/19 1:47 AM, Greg KH wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 10:14:14AM -0500, Dan Murphy wrote:
>>>> Hello
>>>>
>>>> On 7/10/19 7:08 AM, Dan Murphy wrote:
>>>>> Hello
>>>>>
>>>>> On 6/17/19 10:09 AM, Dan Murphy wrote:
>>>>>> Marc
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 6/10/19 11:35 AM, Dan Murphy wrote:
>>>>>>> Bump
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 6/6/19 8:16 AM, Dan Murphy wrote:
>>>>>>>> Marc
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Bump
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 5/31/19 6:51 AM, Dan Murphy wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Marc
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 5/15/19 3:54 PM, Dan Murphy wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Marc
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On 5/9/19 11:11 AM, Dan Murphy wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> Create a m_can platform framework that peripheral
>>>>>>>>>>> devices can register to and use common code and register sets.
>>>>>>>>>>> The peripheral devices may provide read/write and configuration
>>>>>>>>>>> support of the IP.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Acked-by: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>
>>>>>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Dan Murphy <dmurphy@ti.com>
>>>>>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> v12 - Update the m_can_read/write functions to
>>>>>>>>>>> create a backtrace if the callback
>>>>>>>>>>> pointer is NULL. - https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1052302/
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Is this able to be merged now?
>>>>>>>>> ping
>>>>>> Wondering if there is anything else we need to do?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The part has officially shipped and we had hoped to have driver
>>>>>> support in Linux as part of the announcement.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Is this being sent in a PR for 5.3?
>>>>>
>>>>> Dan
>>>>>
>>>> Adding Greg to this thread as I have no idea what is going on with this.
>>> Why me?  What am I supposed to do here?  I see no patches at all to do
>>> anything with :(
>>
>> I am not sure who to email. The maintainer seems to be on hiatus or super
>> busy with other work.
> 
> Who is the maintainer?

That's me.

>> So I added you to see if you know how to handle this.  Wolfgang Acked it but
>> he said Marc needs to pull
> 
> Then work with them, again, what can I do if I can't even see the
> patches here?

The patches are included in a pull request to David Miller
(net-next/master, the CAN upstream), which has already have been merged.

>> it in.  We have quite a few users of this patchset. I have been hosting the
>> patchset in a different tree.
>>
>> These users keep pinging us for upstream status and all we can do is point
>> them to the
>>
>> LKML to show we are continuing to pursue inclusion.
>>
>> https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/project/lkml/list/?series=393454
> 
> Looks sane, work with the proper developers, good luck!

Marc

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