[PATCH v2 5/5] soc/fsl_qbman: export coalesce change API

[Li Yang]

On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 1:08 AM Madalin-cristian Bucur
<madalin.bucur at nxp.com> wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Li Yang [mailto:leoyang.li at nxp.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 2, 2018 12:50 AM
> > To: Madalin-cristian Bucur <madalin.bucur at nxp.com>
> > Cc: Roy Pledge <roy.pledge at nxp.com>; Claudiu Manoil
> > <claudiu.manoil at nxp.com>; Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>; Scott
> > Wood <oss at buserror.net>; moderated list:ARM/FREESCALE IMX / MXC ARM
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> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] soc/fsl_qbman: export coalesce change API
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 3:45 AM Madalin Bucur <madalin.bucur at nxp.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Export the API required to control the QMan portal interrupt coalescing
> > > settings.
> >
> > These are new APIs not just old APIs being exported.  What is the user
> > of these APIs?  Is the user being submitted?  We cannot have APIs in
> > kernel that has no users.
>
> Hi,
>
> These are new APIs that will be used in the DPAA Ethernet driver.
> Changes for the DPAA QBMan and DPAA Ethernet follow different paths upstream
> so the Ethernet driver patch that makes use of these APIs will be sent when
> these changes reach the net-next/master tree.

Applied for next after changing from "export API" to "add API" in the
introduction and updated the subsystem prefix.

Regards,
Leo