On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 05:52:18PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 4:15 PM Daniel Gimpelevich > <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2022-09-22 at 14:10 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 05:03:46PM -0400, Sean Anderson wrote: > > [snip] > > > > As recently as last month, someone's patch to add such support was > > > > rejected for this reason [1]. > > > > > > > > --Sean > > > > > > > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20220812084613.GA3107@willie-the-truck/ > > > > > > > > > I had no idea.. Thanks for pointing that out. I guess I will re-submit in that > > > case. > > > > > > Daniel > > > > This has been happening repeatedly since circa 2014, on multiple > > architectures. It's quite frustrating, really. > > It must not be that important. From the last time, IMO Christophe's > version was much closer to being merged than this series. This is not > how you get things upstream: > > > * Dropped powerpc changes > > Christophe Leroy has reservations about the features for powerpc. I > > don't think his reservations are founded, and these changes should > > fully work on powerpc. However, I dropped these changes so Christophe > > can have more time to get comfortable with the changes. > > Rob I don't submit often enough, that's true. However, I figured maintainers don't want the changes. This is a common occurrence in industry, people may submit once or twice, no traction and they give up. I suppose it's a combination of problems. Christophe's don't have the same features, so they are really totally different but conflicting. Daniel
