Re: [PATCH net-next v8 00/15] ACPI support for dpaa2 driver

[Jon Nettleton]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 6:56 PM Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 07:39:02PM +0300, Ioana Ciornei wrote:
> > From: Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > This patch set provides ACPI support to DPAA2 network drivers.
>
> Just to be clear and avoid confusion, there is a standing NACK against
> this patchset. Please see the discussion here:
>
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-acpi/patch/20200715090400.4733-2-calvin.johnson@xxxxxxxxxxx/#23518385
>
> So far, i've not seen any indication the issues raised there have been
> resolved. I don't see any Acked-by from an ACPI maintainer. So this
> code remains NACKed.

Andrew,

The ACPI maintainers did bless the use of the ACPI standards followed
in this patchset, and their only abstinence from ACK'ing the patchset
was whether the code was used in production systems.  Well currently,
not only have we, SolidRun, been using this patchset and the associated
ACPI tables in our SystemsReady certified firmware for the HoneyComb,
but we also have customers using this same patchset and firmware on
their systems rolled out to customers.

Additionally we have an entire new product line based on Marvell's
Armada CN913x series, which also needs this patchset to be fully
functional.

I am quite certain this is more than enough production systems using
this ACPI description method for networking to progress this patchset
forward.

-Jon