Re: [PATCH] riscv: move sifive_l2_cache.c to drivers/soc

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab]

Em Mon, 19 Aug 2019 08:26:19 +0200
Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> escreveu:

> On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 08:09:04AM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 10:29:35AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:  
> > > The sifive_l2_cache.c is in no way related to RISC-V architecture
> > > memory management.  It is a little stub driver working around the fact
> > > that the EDAC maintainers prefer their drivers to be structured in a
> > > certain way  
> > 
> > That changed recently so I guess we can do the per-IP block driver after
> > all, if people would still prefer it.  
> 
> That would seem like the best idea.  But I don't really know this code
> well enough myself, and I really need to get this code out of the
> forced on RISC-V codebase as some SOCs I'm working with simply don't
> have the memory for it..
> 
> So unless someone signs up to do a per-IP block edac drivers instead
> very quickly I'd still like to see something like this go into 5.4
> for now.

I'm wandering if we should at least add an entry for this one at
MAINTAINERS, pointing it to the EDAC mailing list. Something like:

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 7dfe381c8b43..1c3bc5aa3af0 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -5906,6 +5906,7 @@ M:	Yash Shah <yash.shah@xxxxxxxxxx>
 L:	linux-edac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
 S:	Supported
 F:	drivers/edac/sifive_edac.c
+F:	drivers/soc/sifive/
 
 EDAC-SKYLAKE
 M:	Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>


Thanks,
Mauro