Re: [PATCH resend] platform/x86: intel-uncore-freq: add Emerald Rapids support

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On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 3:59 PM Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 3:37 PM Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 11/23/22 09:45, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> > > Hello Hans,
> > >
> > > On Tue, 2022-11-22 at 16:30 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > > There are 3 different issues with this patch, next time please
> > > check your patch a bit more thorough before submitting it:
> > >
> > > 1. This is the first time I see this, or that the
> > > platform-driver-x86@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > list sees this. Next time please make sure you address the patch to the right
> > > people the first time you send it:
> > >
> > > sure, thanks.
> > >
> > > 2. This has checkpatch warnings which are easily fixable:
> > >
> > > [hans@shalem platform-drivers-x86]$ scripts/checkpatch.pl 0001-platform-x86-
> > > intel-uncore-freq-add-Emerald-Rapids-su.patch
> > > WARNING: Possible unwrapped commit description (prefer a maximum 75 chars per
> > > line)
> > >
> > > OK.
> > >
> > > 3. This fails to build on top of:
> > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86.git/log/?h=for-next
> > >
> > > OK, thanks for the pointer. I'd need platfrom-drivers-x86 git tree to include
> > > this upstream commit:
> > >
> > > 7beade0dd41d x86/cpu: Add several Intel server CPU model numbers
> > >
> > > Would you please consider updating?
> >
> > Ugh, no, *NO*! I really expect Intel to do better here!
> >
> > As I repeated explained with the
> >
> > "platform/x86/intel: pmc/core: Add Raptor Lake support to pmc core driver"
> >
> > patch I cannot just go and cherry-pick random patches merged through other trees
> > because that may cause conflicts and will cause the merge to look really
> > funky.
>
> I don't think this is about requesting a cherry-pick though.
>
> > There are proper ways to do this and this is not it!
> >
> > This is something which Intel really *must* do correctly next time because
> > having this discussion over and over again is becoming very tiresome!
> >
> > So the proper way to do starts with realizing *beforehand* that things
> > will not build on top of pdx86/for-next. By like actually doing
> > a build-test based on top of pdx86/for-next instead of this nonsense of
> > repeatedly sending me broken patches.
>
> This patch is based on the mainline.  The requisite commit has been
> included into the Linus' tree since at least 6.1-rc4 AFAICS and I
> suppose that it has been tested on top of that.
>
> You could in principle create a temporary branch based on 6.1-rc4 (or
> a later -rc), apply the patch on top of it, merge your current branch
> on top of that and merge it back into your current branch (that should
> result in a fast-forward merge, so the temporary branch can be deleted
> after it).
>
> I do such things on a regular basis and no complaints so far.

Alternatively, if you'd rather not do that, I can merge the Artem's
patch through the PM tree (it is PM-related after all).

I suppose that your ACK would be applicable for that too?



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