Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] drivers: make early_platform code SuperH-specific - Greg Kroah-Hartman

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>,
	Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>,
	"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>,
	linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-serial@vger.kernel.org,
	Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] drivers: make early_platform code SuperH-specific
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2019 14:44:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191007144421.GA966763@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191004132025.GQ16318@brightrain.aerifal.cx>

On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 09:20:25AM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 03:00:31PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 11:29:11AM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
> > > 
> > > Some time ago I started a discussion about the need for a proper early device
> > > probing mechanism[1]. One that would be based on real platform drivers and
> > > support both platform data and device tree.
> > > 
> > > While we're far from reaching any consensus on the implementation, Arnd
> > > suggested that I start off by moving the SuperH-specific early platform
> > > drivers implementation to arch/sh[2].
> > > 
> > > This series is the first attempt at making way for a new, less hacky
> > > implementation.
> > > 
> > > The first patch moves all the early_platform code to arch/sh.
> > > 
> > > The second patch prefixes all early_platform symbols with 'sh_'.
> > > 
> > > [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/4/26/657
> > > [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/4/27/239
> > > 
> > > v1 -> v2:
> > > - certain drivers are compiled for arm/mach-shmobile too - we need to
> > >   add ifdefs for CONFIG_SUPERH around early_platform calls
> > > 
> > > v2 -> v3:
> > > - added a stub for is_early_platform_device() which always returns false
> > >   on non-SuperH architectures
> > > 
> > > v3 -> v4:
> > > - rebased on top of v5.4-rc1
> > > - removed patches that are already upstream from the series
> > > 
> > > Bartosz Golaszewski (2):
> > >   drivers: move the early platform device support to arch/sh
> > >   sh: add the sh_ prefix to early platform symbols
> > 
> > I like this, any objection from anyone if I take this in my driver-core
> > tree for 5.5-rc1?
> 
> I don't think I have any objection. It will probably make gratuitous
> merge conflicts with Sato-san's old device tree sh4 work when we get
> back to finishing that, but that's not really a big deal.

Ok, I've queued it up in my tree now, thanks,

greg k-h