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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux PM <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>, Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>,
	Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@samsung.com>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	Lucas Stach <l.stach@pengutronix.de>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>,
	Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] driver core: Fix some issues related to device links
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 14:22:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190131132247.GA6837@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJZ5v0hsBNYZ7mu6SrhBY+LiOQZKz2K_3OtsCb9Jt8QR1YRhOA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 11:09:51AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 12:25 PM Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Greg at al,
> >
> > Recently I have been looking at the device links code because of the
> > recent discussion on possibly using them in the DRM subsystem (see for
> > example https://marc.info/?l=linux-pm&m=154832771905309&w=2) and I have
> > found a few issues in that code which should be addressed by this patch
> > series.  Please refer to the patch changelogs for details.
> >
> > None of the problems addressed here should be manifesting themselves in
> > mainline kernel today, but if there are more device links users in the
> > future, they most likely will be encountered sooner or later.  Also they
> > need to be fixed for the DRM use case to be supported IMO.
> >
> > This series does not fix all issues in device links that have become
> > apparent (generally speaking, the idea of returning an existing link
> > in case there is one already for the given consumer-supplier pair
> > doesn't play well with stateful links and their flags), so there will
> > be a follow-up series of patches to clean that up.  Still, I don't see
> > a reason to sit on these fixes while working on the other patches, so
> > here they go.
> 
> Any concerns regarding this lot?
> 
> [Please note that patch 5 in the series was replaced with the v2 at
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10781205/]
> 
> If not, and if you don't mind, I would like to queue it up next week,
> possibly along with the follow-up material posted on Monday
> (https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/2405639.4es7pRLqn0@aspire.rjw.lan/) if
> that is not problematic, so it gets some linux-next coverage before
> the next merge window.

Can I queue it up in my tree, given that I have a number of other driver
core patches in there, and I don't know how the merge issues will be if
we start to diverge.

Or do you need this for some other work?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-31 13:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-24 11:13 [PATCH 0/6] driver core: Fix some issues related to device links Rafael J. Wysocki
2019-01-24 11:15 ` [PATCH 1/6] driver core: Fix DL_FLAG_AUTOREMOVE_SUPPLIER device link flag handling Rafael J. Wysocki
2019-01-24 11:16 ` [PATCH 2/6] driver core: Reorder actions in __device_links_no_driver() Rafael J. Wysocki
2019-01-24 11:18 ` [PATCH 3/6] driver core: Avoid careless re-use of existing device links Rafael J. Wysocki
2019-01-24 11:19 ` [PATCH 4/6] driver core: Do not resume suppliers under device_links_write_lock() Rafael J. Wysocki
2019-01-24 11:21 ` [PATCH 5/6] driver core: Fix handling of runtime PM flags in device_link_add() Rafael J. Wysocki
2019-01-25 11:18   ` [PATCH v2 " Rafael J. Wysocki
2019-01-24 11:23 ` [PATCH 6/6] driver core: Fix adding device links to probing suppliers Rafael J. Wysocki
2019-01-24 14:58 ` [PATCH 0/6] driver core: Fix some issues related to device links Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2019-01-24 23:08   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2019-01-31 10:09 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2019-01-31 13:22   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2019-01-31 13:24     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-01-31 16:02       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2019-01-31 18:24         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-01-31 18:36           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2019-01-31 23:50           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2019-02-01  0:12             ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-02-01  0:20               ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2019-01-31 16:03       ` Ulf Hansson

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