From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.2 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FD08C3F68F for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2020 10:58:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55E3520CC7 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2020 10:58:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728372AbgAaK6i (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Jan 2020 05:58:38 -0500 Received: from lhrrgout.huawei.com ([185.176.76.210]:2336 "EHLO huawei.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728268AbgAaK6i (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Jan 2020 05:58:38 -0500 Received: from LHREML712-CAH.china.huawei.com (unknown [172.18.7.107]) by Forcepoint Email with ESMTP id 57395EB0A4EB710A2233; Fri, 31 Jan 2020 10:58:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lhreml724-chm.china.huawei.com (10.201.108.75) by LHREML712-CAH.china.huawei.com (10.201.108.35) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.3.408.0; Fri, 31 Jan 2020 10:58:36 +0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (10.202.226.43) by lhreml724-chm.china.huawei.com (10.201.108.75) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256) id 15.1.1713.5; Fri, 31 Jan 2020 10:58:35 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] ACPI/PPTT: Add acpi_pptt_get_package_info() API To: Sudeep Holla CC: , , , , , , , , References: <1580210059-199540-1-git-send-email-john.garry@huawei.com> <1580210059-199540-2-git-send-email-john.garry@huawei.com> <20200128123415.GB36168@bogus> <20200130112338.GA54532@bogus> <20200130174116.GA57159@bogus> From: John Garry Message-ID: Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 10:58:34 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200130174116.GA57159@bogus> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.202.226.43] X-ClientProxiedBy: lhreml735-chm.china.huawei.com (10.201.108.86) To lhreml724-chm.china.huawei.com (10.201.108.75) X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 30/01/2020 17:41, Sudeep Holla wrote: > On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 04:12:20PM +0000, John Garry wrote: >> On 30/01/2020 11:23, Sudeep Holla wrote: >>>> I personally would not prefer to add the support when I know it is getting >>>> deprecated. I am not sure on kernel community policy on the same. >>>> >>> OK, the details on the proposal to deprecate can be now found in UEFI >>> bugzilla [1] >>> >> >> Wouldn't it be a better approach to propose deprecating the field when there >> is a readily available alternative, i.e. not a spec from a different body in >> beta stage? >> > > Understandable and valid concerns. It would be helpful if you raise it in > the UEFI bugzilla. Your concerns will get lost if you just raise here. ok, thanks. I can do that if and when I can get an account... > >> To me, this new SMC support will take an appreciable amount of time to be >> implemented in FW by SiPs when actually released. And if it requires an ATF >> upgrade - which I guess it does - then that's a big job. >> > > Again I do understand, please raise it with the SMCCC specification contact > as listed in the link I shared. > I will talk with my FW guys first when they return from CNY. Cheers, john