Re: [PATCH 0/4] power: avs: Move drivers to the soc directories and drop avs

From: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
	Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>, Linux PM <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>, Andy Gross <agross@kernel.org>,
	Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>,
	Niklas Cassel <nks@flawful.org>, Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>,
	Kevin Hilman <khilman@kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] power: avs: Move drivers to the soc directories and drop avs
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2020 12:41:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPDyKFq4sym1V7EjEE4RArrtpBtXi2w1iCVLhNYgPEo4guCqiA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJZ5v0i6CeUy4aQnyMmNyAHfdunWbbB2TsQwtX4QwNwYk+71jg@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 at 18:30, Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 5:23 PM Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org> wrote:
> >
> > + Arnd
> >
> > On Wed, 7 Oct 2020 at 17:09, Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 6:05 PM Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > The avs drivers in drivers/power/avs/* are all SoC specific drivers that
> > > > doesn't share any code. Instead they are located in a directory, mostly to keep
> > > > similar functionality together. From a maintenance point of view, it makes
> > > > better sense to collect SoC specific drivers like these, into the SoC specific
> > > > directories.
> > > >
> > > > Therefore, this series moves the drivers, one by one - and in the end, it
> > > > deletes the empty avs directory.
> > > >
> > > > It seems best to me, if this can be funneled via Rafael's linux-pm tree. Then
> > > > when going forward, each driver should be managed through the SoC maintainer's
> > > > trees.
> > >
> > > That's fine by me.
> > >
> > > I'd like to get an ACK from the arm-soc side on this, though.
> >
> > I have looped in Arnd, to get his opinion on this.
> >
> > Although, I think the people on cc already send pull requests to the
> > arm-soc maintainers (or perhaps it was these people you were referring
> > to), so just awaiting their acks should be fine, I guess.
>
> OK
>
> For now, I've taken patches [2-3/4] that have been ACKed.
>
> When the [1/4] is ACKed, I'll take it too and apply the last one.

Patch 1/4 has been acked now as well, so I think the remaining part of
this series is ready to go.

However, I noticed that Stephen Rothwell reported some merge conflicts
for arm-soc in linux-next. Quite trivial to resolve, though. Perhaps
an option to consider is to send this as material for v5.10-rc1 (or
maybe rc2) to avoid further conflicts during this release cycle? Just
an idea..

Kind regards
Uffe