Re: [PATCH v10 0/9] Add the I3C subsystem

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On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 07:10:17PM +0100, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On Sun, 11 Nov 2018 09:39:32 -0800
> Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 04:43:24PM +0200, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> > > Hi Greg,
> > > 
> > > I think we've reached a point where we can eventually consider the I3C
> > > framework for inclusion in 4.20 (5.0?). A few more issues were reported
> > > on v9 and fixed in v10. I can't guarantee that the implementation is
> > > free of bugs but I still think it's worth merging it in v4.20: it's a
> > > new subsystem, so we don't risk regressions, and the only way we can
> > > detect other issues is by having other people experiment with this
> > > implementation.
> > > 
> > > The only remaining concern raised by Arnd is the fact that both hosts
> > > and slaves share the same bus type and are differentiated thanks to
> > > their device_type, which IMHO is fine since this is what other
> > > subsystems do (plus I don't see other solutions to have both I3C
> > > devices and I3C buses represented under /sys/bus/i3c/).  
> > 
> > Yeah, it's not the nicest, but it will work, we did it also for USB and
> > greybus and it solves the issue.
> > 
> > This all looks good to me, so I've queued it up.  Let's see if
> > linux-next has any problems with it.
> 
> I recently asked Stephen to add the linux-i3c tree to linux-next, so
> I'm expecting conflicts :-/. Sorry, I didn't know you were planning to
> take these patches through your tree.
> 
> BTW, I also fixed a couple of things when rebasing on top of 4.20-rc1:
> 
> - KernelVersion in the sysfs ABI doc has been updated to 5.0

There is no 5.0 yet :)

> - Fixed i3c_master_getmxds_locked() (bug reported/fixed by Colin here
>   https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg1799850.html)
> - Removed a blank line at the end of master-driver-api.rst
> 
> For the record, the i3c/next branch pulled by Stephen is available here
> [1].
> 
> > Thanks for sticking with it, nice work!
> 
> Thanks for reviewing it! Greg, Stephen, let me know if you want me to
> reset i3c/next to v4.20-rc1 to avoid conflicts in linux-next.

So do you want me to just drop these patches from my tree?  If so, I
can, but i have no problem sending these to Linus for the next -rc1
merge window through my tree if that is easier.

It's up to you.

greg k-h



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