Re: [PATCH 00/10] irqchip: sunxi-nmi: Cleanups and fix A31 R_INTC register offset

From: Marc Zyngier
Date: Tue Jun 06 2017 - 11:32:28 EST


On 06/06/17 06:59, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> This is an alternative to Icenowy's recent A64 R_INTC patches.
>
> This is a two part series. The first four patches clean up the existing
> sunxi-nmi driver. Patches five and six add a new "sun6i-a31-r-intc"
> compatible, which mainly adjusts or removes the awkward register region
> offset the old "sun6i-a31-sc-nmi" compatible needed. The remaining
> patches fix or add device nodes for SoC's having this hardware.
>
> Using "sun6i-a31-r-intc" introduced in this series, instead of Icenowy's
> "sun50i-a64-r-intc" is preferred. This follows our policy of naming
> hardware blocks and compatibles after their first occurrence.
>
> The first six patches should go through the irqchip tree, while we
> (sunxi) can take the device tree changes after the driver has been
> merged, to avoid breaking linux-next as a whole.

So should I drop the original two patches and take those six instead?

Thanks,

M.
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