Re: DTR gpio handling removed by 985bfd54c826c0ba873ca0adfd5589263e0c6ee2

2014-08-15 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi Felipe,

Am 15.08.2014 um 00:58 schrieb Felipe Balbi ba...@ti.com:

 Hi,
 
 On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 11:04:58PM +0200, Belisko Marek wrote:
 during 3.15 release was removed by commit
 985bfd54c826c0ba873ca0adfd5589263e0c6ee2 code which was added by
 9574f36fb801035f6ab0fbb1b53ce2c12c17d100 by Neil Brown. We're using
 DTR gpio in gta04 device. I plan to post DT binding for DTR gpio +
 documentation and find out that Neil's code was removed by Felipe.
 Greg can you please revert mentioned commit? We're using DTR gpio in
 gta04 device. Or is there other way how to proceed? Thanks.
 
 there are *NO* users of that in tree, if you're using it, then please
 add a proper DTS for your device and figure out a way of passing DTR
 gpio through DT.

In fact we are in the middle of preparing DT and driver patches for upstreaming
the out of tree drivers Neil is mentioning. So there are no users *yet* and
maybe we are the first one.

Neil has already completely argued and commented on that topic:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/23/736

Unfortunately he acked the removal with a completely non-technical argument:

 Just at the moment I'm finding it hard to care.
 So
  Acked-by: NeilBrown ne...@suse.de

Now we have the problem that it got kicked out while we were preparing
the other parts :(

On the other hand, please consider that we don’t have the manpower and knowledge
to modify bigger parts of Linux besides plumbing together parts that already
exist and add drivers and DT nodes.

So please consider again to re-add 9574f36fb801035f6ab0fbb1b53ce2c12c17d100.

Or should we resubmit it together with our DT/drivers where we use it?

BR,
Nikolaus

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Re: DTR gpio handling removed by 985bfd54c826c0ba873ca0adfd5589263e0c6ee2

2014-08-15 Thread Felipe Balbi
Hi,

On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 08:08:44AM +0200, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
 Hi Felipe,
 
 Am 15.08.2014 um 00:58 schrieb Felipe Balbi ba...@ti.com:
 
  Hi,
  
  On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 11:04:58PM +0200, Belisko Marek wrote:
  during 3.15 release was removed by commit
  985bfd54c826c0ba873ca0adfd5589263e0c6ee2 code which was added by
  9574f36fb801035f6ab0fbb1b53ce2c12c17d100 by Neil Brown. We're using
  DTR gpio in gta04 device. I plan to post DT binding for DTR gpio +
  documentation and find out that Neil's code was removed by Felipe.
  Greg can you please revert mentioned commit? We're using DTR gpio in
  gta04 device. Or is there other way how to proceed? Thanks.
  
  there are *NO* users of that in tree, if you're using it, then please
  add a proper DTS for your device and figure out a way of passing DTR
  gpio through DT.
 
 In fact we are in the middle of preparing DT and driver patches for
 upstreaming the out of tree drivers Neil is mentioning. So there are
 no users *yet* and maybe we are the first one.

right, and that's why it was removed. How would we even know that the
code works when there are no users for it ?

 Neil has already completely argued and commented on that topic:
 
 https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/23/736
 
 Unfortunately he acked the removal with a completely non-technical
 argument:
 
  Just at the moment I'm finding it hard to care.
  So
   Acked-by: NeilBrown ne...@suse.de
 
 Now we have the problem that it got kicked out while we were preparing
 the other parts :(
 
 On the other hand, please consider that we don’t have the manpower and
 knowledge to modify bigger parts of Linux besides plumbing together
 parts that already exist and add drivers and DT nodes.
 
 So please consider again to re-add
 9574f36fb801035f6ab0fbb1b53ce2c12c17d100.
 
 Or should we resubmit it together with our DT/drivers where we use it?

submit it together with your patches but it would be a lot better to see
that turned into something generic, which was commented on the same
thread IIRC.

cheers

-- 
balbi


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Re: DTR gpio handling removed by 985bfd54c826c0ba873ca0adfd5589263e0c6ee2

2014-08-14 Thread Felipe Balbi
Hi,

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 11:04:58PM +0200, Belisko Marek wrote:
 during 3.15 release was removed by commit
 985bfd54c826c0ba873ca0adfd5589263e0c6ee2 code which was added by
 9574f36fb801035f6ab0fbb1b53ce2c12c17d100 by Neil Brown. We're using
 DTR gpio in gta04 device. I plan to post DT binding for DTR gpio +
 documentation and find out that Neil's code was removed by Felipe.
 Greg can you please revert mentioned commit? We're using DTR gpio in
 gta04 device. Or is there other way how to proceed? Thanks.

there are *NO* users of that in tree, if you're using it, then please
add a proper DTS for your device and figure out a way of passing DTR
gpio through DT.

Keep in mind, also, that we might be switching back to 8250 driver (see
thread from Sebastian Siewior) so you might want to look into a way of
adding *generic* gpio-based DTR handling.

-- 
balbi


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