Re: [PATCH v12 1/5] bus: mhi: core: Add helper API to return number of free TREs

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 11:59:46AM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 10:32:45AM +0100, Loic Poulain wrote:
> > On Mon, 16 Nov 2020 at 23:46, Hemant Kumar <hemantk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Introduce mhi_get_free_desc_count() API to return number
> > > of TREs available to queue buffer. MHI clients can use this
> > > API to know before hand if ring is full without calling queue
> > > API.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Hemant Kumar <hemantk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Reviewed-by: Jeffrey Hugo <jhugo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Reviewed-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > In case this series get new comments to address, I would suggest
> > merging that patch in mhi-next separately so that other drivers can
> > start benefiting this function (I would like to use it in mhi-net).
> > 
> 
> Greg doesn't like that. He asked me to pick APIs only when there an in-tree
> consumer available.

If someone wants to use it, then yes, by all means merge it.  I can't
just take new apis without any user.

thanks,

greg k-h