From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
To: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>,
Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
Cc: Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com>,
Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@linaro.org>,
Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>,
Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI/IORT: Handle device properties with software node API
Date: Mon, 17 May 2021 16:36:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJZ5v0huzEY=hHVrtkGsxy7sR5kPGFAr6=R5_khA=WFLhSMgtg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YJ53eBRGXtabyT5K@kuha.fi.intel.com>
On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 3:13 PM Heikki Krogerus
<heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 11:39:12AM +0100, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> > On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 03:55:28PM +0300, Heikki Krogerus wrote:
> > > The older device property API is going to be removed.
> > > Replacing the device_add_properties() call with software
> > > node API equivalent device_create_managed_software_node().
> > >
> > > Fixes: 434b73e61cc6 ("iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Use device properties for pasid-num-bits")
> >
> > Is this really fixing anything ? I am not sure I understand what you
> > would like to achieve with this tag.
>
> Right now it's not possible to simply remove the old API because some
> of the maintainers want to take care of the conversion themselves, but
> at the same time I also do not want to see any new releases of the
> kernel that introduce more users for it. That's why it's a fix.
With the assumption that the above clarification is sufficient,
applied as 5.14 material, thanks!
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-17 14:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-11 12:55 [PATCH] ACPI/IORT: Handle device properties with software node API Heikki Krogerus
2021-05-11 13:51 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2021-05-14 0:42 ` Hanjun Guo
2021-05-14 10:39 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2021-05-14 13:13 ` Heikki Krogerus
2021-05-17 14:36 ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
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