Re: [PATCH 0/4] power: avs: Move drivers to the soc directories and drop avs

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Fri Oct 16 2020 - 12:30:42 EST


On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 5:23 PM Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> + Arnd
>
> On Wed, 7 Oct 2020 at 17:09, Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 6:05 PM Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > The avs drivers in drivers/power/avs/* are all SoC specific drivers that
> > > doesn't share any code. Instead they are located in a directory, mostly to keep
> > > similar functionality together. From a maintenance point of view, it makes
> > > better sense to collect SoC specific drivers like these, into the SoC specific
> > > directories.
> > >
> > > Therefore, this series moves the drivers, one by one - and in the end, it
> > > deletes the empty avs directory.
> > >
> > > It seems best to me, if this can be funneled via Rafael's linux-pm tree. Then
> > > when going forward, each driver should be managed through the SoC maintainer's
> > > trees.
> >
> > That's fine by me.
> >
> > I'd like to get an ACK from the arm-soc side on this, though.
>
> I have looped in Arnd, to get his opinion on this.
>
> Although, I think the people on cc already send pull requests to the
> arm-soc maintainers (or perhaps it was these people you were referring
> to), so just awaiting their acks should be fine, I guess.

OK

For now, I've taken patches [2-3/4] that have been ACKed.

When the [1/4] is ACKed, I'll take it too and apply the last one.

Thanks!