Re: Future of pci-mvebu

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On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 05:21:01PM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 06:19:52AM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > [+cc Radu]
> > 
> > On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 12:03:17AM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > > Hello, I have just one question. What do you want to do with pci-mvebu
> > > driver? It is already marked as broken for 3 kernel releases and I do
> > > not see any progress from anybody (and you rejected my fixes). How long
> > > do you want it to have marked as broken?
> > 
> > I don't think "depends on BROKEN" necessarily means that we plan to
> > remove the driver.  I think it just means that it's currently broken,
> > but we hope to fix it eventually.
> > 
> > I think the problem here is the regular vs chained interrupt handlers,
> > right?  Radu has been looking at that recently, too, so maybe we can
> > have another go at it.
> > 
> 
> We (Linaro and Redhat) had a discussion a while ago on this topic and I just got
> pointed to Radu's series. So yes, we should instead work on that direction
> instead of driver hacks which brings maintainers disagreement.
> 

FYI: These are the two series/patches that I got pointed to:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230530214550.864894-1-rrendec@xxxxxxxxxx/
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230629183019.1992819-1-rrendec@xxxxxxxxxx/

- Mani

> - Mani
> 
> > Bjorn
> 
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