On Wed, 7 Oct 2020 at 11:18, Joel Stanley [off-list ref] wrote:

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

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Hi Joel,

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

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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?

Arnd, Olof, what would you like to do here?

Cheers,

Joel

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