Re: [PATCH 0/8] generic command line v4

[Daniel Walker]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 05:52:18PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 4:15 PM Daniel Gimpelevich
> <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 2022-09-22 at 14:10 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 05:03:46PM -0400, Sean Anderson wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > > As recently as last month, someone's patch to add such support was
> > > > rejected for this reason [1].
> > > >
> > > > --Sean
> > > >
> > > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20220812084613.GA3107@willie-the-truck/
> > >
> > >
> > > I had no idea.. Thanks for pointing that out. I guess I will re-submit in that
> > > case.
> > >
> > > Daniel
> >
> > This has been happening repeatedly since circa 2014, on multiple
> > architectures. It's quite frustrating, really.
> 
> It must not be that important. From the last time, IMO Christophe's
> version was much closer to being merged than this series. This is not
> how you get things upstream:
> 
> > * Dropped powerpc changes
> >   Christophe Leroy has reservations about the features for powerpc. I
> >   don't think his reservations are founded, and these changes should
> >   fully work on powerpc. However, I dropped these changes so Christophe
> >   can have more time to get comfortable with the changes.
> 
> Rob

I don't submit often enough, that's true. However, I figured maintainers don't
want the changes. This is a common occurrence in industry, people may submit
once or twice, no traction and they give up. I suppose it's a combination of
problems.

Christophe's don't have the same features, so they are really totally different
but conflicting.

Daniel