On Sat, 3 Oct 2020 at 20:31, Olof Johansson [off-list ref] wrote:

Hi Joel,

On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 06:31:28AM +0000, Joel Stanley wrote:

quoted

Hello Soc maintainers,

Here are some ASPEED changes for the 5.10 merge window.

The following changes since commit e55f541e51b5136fc0ced0bdf2b33ee3cca3bc96:

  soc: aspeed: xdma: Add reset ioctl (2020-09-25 15:32:57 +0930)

are available in the Git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joel/aspeed.git
tags/aspeed-5.10-soc

for you to fetch changes up to e55f541e51b5136fc0ced0bdf2b33ee3cca3bc96:

  soc: aspeed: xdma: Add reset ioctl (2020-09-25 15:32:57 +0930)

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ASPEED soc driver updates for 5.10

New drivers:

 - XDMA driver for the BMC to host PCIe DMA device

I don't think this driver belongs in drivers/soc, it's not "soc glue
logic", and it has a userspace interface. Some of the commits even
references it as a "misc driver". Mind resubmitting it for drivers/misc
instead?

(Argh I missed this mail)

We used to have the various little drivers in drivers/misc, but
somewhere along the line we decided to move them to drivers/soc. I
think that was Arnd asking Patrick Venture?

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/CAK8P3a3CK4o8KnD6M084ULEmm+6_CtNFqYHjSqE5vp+U9YAmkA@mail.gmail.com/ (local)

The existing drivers have userspace interfaces for misc parts of the
aspeed chip, mostly relating to the strange (from a traditional
Linux/host perspective) interfaces it exposes to the host. This XDMA
driver should go alongside those other drivers.

With that context, how would you like to proceed?

Cheers,

Joel

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