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From: Milo Kim <milo.kim@ti.com>
To: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
Cc: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>,
	<tglx@linutronix.de>, <jason@lakedaemon.net>,
	<marc.zyngier@arm.com>, <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>,
	<ludovic.desroches@atmel.com>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/19] irqchip: atmel-aic: make unified AIC driver
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 16:55:00 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <568CC854.8070701@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <568A3D72.5040505@atmel.com>

Hi Nicolas,

On 01/04/2016 06:37 PM, Nicolas Ferre wrote:
> Le 04/01/2016 10:02, Boris Brezillon a écrit :
>> Hi Milo,
>>
>> On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 13:28:24 +0900
>> Milo Kim <milo.kim@ti.com> wrote:
>>
>>> This patch-set provides unified Atmel AIC (Advanced Interrupt Controller)
>>> driver. Currently, there are two AIC drivers, AIC and AIC5.
>>> Each driver consists of chip specific part (irq-atmel-aic.o or
>>> irq-atmel-aic5.o) and shared code (irq-atmel-aic-common.o).
>>> But consolidated AIC driver is just one file driver which supports both
>>> IRQ chip systems.
>>
>> Sorry, but what's the real motivation behind this rework?
>
> I was about to ask the same question.
>
> I'm really sorry that you spent so much time and effort for something
> that I'm absolutely against: reworking stable code that had been
> maturing for years and that is now nicely stable... for no obvious reason...

That's fine. It's not a problem. I enjoyed the time :)
I was also concerning about a regression. Let me try to rework common 
part then.

>
> So unless there is a very strong benefit, it's a pretty firm NACK for
> this series. We will certainly take some time to review the bits that
> can be taken further to enhance our current drivers.

Sure, I totally agree.

>
> I also advice you to talk to us before starting such a big project and
> you'll notice that we are open to changes and have many aspect that you
> can work on with AT91.

I'll keep in mind. Thanks for your advice.

Best regards,
Milo

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-06  7:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-04  4:28 Milo Kim
2016-01-04  4:28 ` [PATCH 01/19] irqchip: atmel-aic: fix wrong bit operation for IRQ priority Milo Kim
2016-01-04  8:11   ` Boris Brezillon
2016-01-04  4:28 ` [PATCH 02/19] irqchip: atmel-aic: clean up RTC interrupt code Milo Kim
2016-01-04  8:16   ` Boris Brezillon
2016-01-04  4:28 ` [PATCH 03/19] irqchip: atmel-aic: clean up RTT " Milo Kim
2016-01-04  8:17   ` Boris Brezillon
2016-01-04  4:28 ` [PATCH 04/19] irqchip: atmel-aic: replace magic numbers with named constant Milo Kim
2016-01-04  8:29   ` Boris Brezillon
2016-01-04  4:28 ` [PATCH 05/19] irqchip: atmel-aic: use simple constant to get number of interrupts per chip Milo Kim
2016-01-04  8:33   ` Boris Brezillon
2016-01-04  4:28 ` [PATCH 06/19] irqchip: atmel-aic: introduce register data structure Milo Kim
2016-01-04  8:53   ` Boris Brezillon
2016-01-06  8:30     ` Milo Kim
2016-01-04  4:28 ` [PATCH 07/19] irqchip: atmel-aic: make common IRQ domain translate function Milo Kim
2016-01-04  4:28 ` [PATCH 08/19] irqchip: atmel-aic: add common mask and unmask functions Milo Kim
2016-01-04  8:48   ` Boris Brezillon
2016-01-04  4:28 ` [PATCH 09/19] irqchip: atmel-aic: add common retrigger function Milo Kim
2016-01-04  4:28 ` [PATCH 10/19] irqchip: atmel-aic: add common set_type function Milo Kim
2016-01-04  4:28 ` [PATCH 11/19] irqchip: atmel-aic: add common PM IRQ chip operation Milo Kim
2016-01-04  4:28 ` [PATCH 12/19] irqchip: atmel-aic: use EOI register data in aic_reg_data Milo Kim
2016-01-04  4:28 ` [PATCH 13/19] irqchip: atmel-aic: clean up irq_chip_generic Milo Kim
2016-01-04  4:28 ` [PATCH 14/19] irqchip: atmel-aic: add common HW init function Milo Kim
2016-01-04  4:28 ` [PATCH 15/19] irqchip: atmel-aic: add common interrupt handler Milo Kim
2016-01-04  4:28 ` [PATCH 16/19] irqchip: atmel-aic: get total number of IRQs from device node Milo Kim
2016-01-04  4:28 ` [PATCH 17/19] irqchip: atmel-aic: use unified IRQ chip initialization function Milo Kim
2016-01-04  4:28 ` [PATCH 18/19] irqchip: atmel-aic: use unified AIC driver Milo Kim
2016-01-04  4:28 ` [PATCH 19/19] irqchip: atmel-aic: rename AIC driver and fix Kconfig Milo Kim
2016-01-04  9:02 ` [PATCH 00/19] irqchip: atmel-aic: make unified AIC driver Boris Brezillon
2016-01-04  9:37   ` Nicolas Ferre
2016-01-06  7:55     ` Milo Kim [this message]
2016-01-06  7:48   ` Milo Kim
2016-01-06  9:07     ` Boris Brezillon
2016-01-06 14:49       ` Jason Cooper
2016-01-07  7:48       ` Milo Kim

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