Re: [PATCH 5/7] memory: renesas-rpc-if: Move resource acquisition to .probe()

From: Krzysztof Kozlowski
Date: Thu Jun 30 2022 - 04:48:56 EST


On 29/06/2022 20:48, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>>
>> You sure? Except rebasing I don't see that. rpcif_sw_init() received the
>> rpcif so it had access to all fields.
>
> Yes I am, don't be misguided by the name of the local variable.
> The rpcif structure is allocated by the HF or SPI child driver,
> and thus not available in the RPC core driver's .probe() function.
> The rpc_priv structure (as of patch 4) is allocated by the RPC core driver.
>
>>> I agree patches 1-3 could be moved later, if you think it is worthwhile.
>>
>> This would not be enough, it has to be first patch to be backportable.
>
> I can make it second? ;-)

Why? The point is that this commit should have Fixes or Cc-stable tag.
If you make it depending on other non-backportable commit, stable folks
cannot pull it automatically.

> Note that that still precludes (easily) backporting s2ram support.

But S2R is a feature so it won't be backported...

Best regards,
Krzysztof