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

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 7:51 PM Jon Nettleton <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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.

And I believe that you have all of the requisite ACKs from the ACPI
side now, so it is up to the networking guys to decide what to do
next.

Thanks,
Rafael