Re: [PATCH 0/4 v1] Mezzanine Low Speed connector bus

From: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	"open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS"
	<devicetree@vger.kernel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
	Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>,
	dev <dev@lists.96boards.org>, Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andy@infradead.org>,
	Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org>,
	Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>,
	Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4 v1] Mezzanine Low Speed connector bus
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2018 16:16:29 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <93d1f00a-2a86-bed0-6bbf-a6f86550b59a@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACRpkdZsJZDFeera-H2dAV_BJP=94L3gmezmLjDb6hSDubZ_Og@mail.gmail.com>

On 11/15/18 2:59 PM, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 5:27 PM Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 8/23/18 4:06 PM, Frank Rowand wrote:
>>> On 08/23/18 03:33, Linus Walleij wrote:
>>>> I have been a bit hesitant to reiterate the series, but this is
>>>> anyways a v1 of the 96Boards Mezzanine Low Speed connector
>>>> driver framework.
>>
>> < snip >
>>
>>> I will read through the rest of the series and revisit my
>>> previous conclusions, but most likely not for a few days.
>>>
>>> -Frank
>>
>> < snip >
>>
>> My apologies for continuing to not getting to this task.  It
>> has been in the top grouping of my todo list but has been
>> pushed aside by a rather busy schedule of conferences and
>> company internal work.  It remains up at the top of my todo
>> list, but most likely will still be shunted aside for three
>> more weeks of other pressing work.
>>
>> I will get to it, I definitely have not forgotten it.
> 
> It's OK, I might get to rebasing the series even.
> 
> We discussed it in a session with Linaro in Vancouver
> recently (some month ago). What we took away from it

It would be helpful for me to look at that.  What was the
title of the session, or a pointer to the resource page
for it?

-Frank

> is that there are many precedents of populating devices
> ad hoc, what really makes this one special is that it takes
> something device tree and ad hoc populates something
> on top of it, not defined in the device tree itself.
> 
> On a related note, Heikki Krogerus is making a software
> FWnode population series. I ran into this when converting
> board files to use more abstract descriptions. Check it out:
> https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=154177331200561&w=2
> 
> The idea with the series is to expand FWnode so that it
> doesn't only populate Linux devices from device tree
> or ACPI but also by software, where needed, further
> expanding the fwnode abstraction. I will probably look
> into using that.
> 
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij
> 