[PATCH v2] soc: add aspeed folder and misc drivers

[Patrick Venture]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 12:35 PM Patrick Venture <venture at google.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 12:27 PM Olof Johansson <olof at lixom.net> wrote:
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> > On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 10:12 AM Patrick Venture <venture at google.com> wrote:
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> > > On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 10:08 AM Olof Johansson <olof at lixom.net> wrote:
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> > > > On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 07:25:49PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 08:28:14AM -0700, Patrick Venture wrote:
> > > > > > On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 8:22 AM Patrick Venture <venture at google.com> wrote:
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> > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 7:26 AM Patrick Venture <venture at google.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Create a SoC folder for the ASPEED parts and place the misc drivers
> > > > > > > > currently present into this folder.  These drivers are not generic part
> > > > > > > > drivers, but rather only apply to the ASPEED SoCs.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Patrick Venture <venture at google.com>
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Accidentally lost the Acked-by when re-sending this patchset as I
> > > > > > > didn't see it on v1 before re-sending v2 to the larger audience.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Since there was a change between v1 and v2, Arnd, I'd appreciate you
> > > > > > Ack this version of the patchset since it changes when the soc/aspeed
> > > > > > Makefile is followed.
> > > > >
> > > > > I have no objection for moving stuff out of drivers/misc/ so the SOC
> > > > > maintainers are free to take this.
> > > > >
> > > > > Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
> > > >
> > > > I'm totally confused. This is the second "PATCH v2" of this patch that I came
> > > > across, I already applied the first.
> > >
> > > I think the issue here was that I added to the CC list another email
> > > and so you may see the v2  without that mailing list, and a v2 with it
> > > --
> > >
> > > Does this require a v3?  I honestly didn't think so, but this was the
> > > first time I had to add more people without needing other changes.
> >
> > Well, v2 doesn't build. I'll fix it up locally by adding an 'endmenu'
> > to drivers/soc/aspeed/Kconfig. But... brings up questions how this was
> > tested before submitting?

Thanks for fixing this for me, and I apologize for the nuisance of it.

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> That's a lost change issue. I'll try to be more diligent in the
> future.  My dev workspace  is disconnected from the kernel used for
> upstreaming patches, so if i make a change in one it isn't always
> reflected in the other.  I'm working on rectifying the underlying
> build space issue to let me use the same repo.
>
> >
> > scripts/kconfig/conf  --allnoconfig Kconfig
> > drivers/soc/Kconfig:24: 'menu' in different file than 'menu'
> > drivers/soc/aspeed/Kconfig:1: location of the 'menu'
> > drivers/Kconfig:233: 'menu' in different file than 'menu'
> > drivers/soc/aspeed/Kconfig:1: location of the 'menu'
> > <none>:34: syntax error
> >
> > > >
> > > > Patrick: Follow up with incremental patch in case there's any difference.
> > > > Meanwhile, please keep in mind that you're adding a lot of work for people when
> > > > you respin patches without following up on the previous version. Thanks!
> > >
> > > w.r.t this patch series.  I found an issue with v1, and released a v2
> > > with the detail of what changed.  I thought that was the correct
> > > approach.  I apologize for creating extra work, that's something
> > > nobody needs.
> >
> > It's ok to submit newer versions, but it's convenient when they get
> > threaded also in non-gmail mail readers (by using in-reply-to).
>
> Roger that.
>
> >
> >
> > -Olof