[PATCH v2] staging: fsl-mc: move bus driver out of staging

[Laurentiu Tudor]

On 11/03/2017 05:17 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 06:04:30PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 01:54:05PM +0300, laurentiu.tudor at nxp.com wrote:
>>> From: Stuart Yoder <stuart.yoder at nxp.com>
>>>
>>> Move the source files out of staging into their final locations:
>>>    -include files in drivers/staging/fsl-mc/include go to include/linux/fsl
>>>    -irq-gic-v3-its-fsl-mc-msi.c goes to drivers/irqchip
>>>    -source in drivers/staging/fsl-mc/bus goes to drivers/bus/fsl-mc
>>>    -README.txt, providing and overview of DPAA goes to
>>>     Documentation/dpaa2/overview.txt
>>>
>>> Update or delete other remaining staging files-- Makefile, Kconfig, TODO.
>>> Update dpaa2_eth and dpio staging drivers.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Stuart Yoder <stuyoder at gmail.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Laurentiu Tudor <laurentiu.tudor at nxp.com>
>>> [Laurentiu: rebased, add dpaa2_eth and dpio #include updates]
>>> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
>>> Cc: Jason Cooper <jason at lakedaemon.net>
>>> Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
>>
>> This is going to have to wait until I get a chunk of time to do the
>> review.  Probably after 4.13-final is out.
>
> Ok, review comments as I go through the code:
> 	mc-sys.c             323 EXPORT_SYMBOL(mc_send_command);
>
> should be EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(fsl_mc_send_command); to match up with your
> other exports and global namespace, right?
>
> You export a lot of dpcon_* symbols that no one uses, please do not do
> that.  Verify that all of them are actually used right now, if not,
> remove them.  If you think you are going to use them in the future,
> wonderful, add them in then.
>
> Same for your dpaa2_* exported symbols, most are not used from what I
> can see.
>
> struct dpaa2_io {
>          atomic_t refs;
>
> That's a kref, please use it instead of trying to roll your own.
>
> And even for this, your locking is not correct (i.e. you do not have
> any), that needs to be fixed so that teardown works correctly.
>
> You have a lot of WARN_ON() calls, that's going to be ignored and should
> all not be needed now that the code is debugged and working properly.
> Please remove them, or turn them into dev_err() calls with a real if ()
> check instead.
>
> You are checking "strings" for the type of device in a lot of places,
> like this:
> 	        if (strcmp(obj_desc->type, "dprc") == 0) {
> why are you not just using the built-in driver model .type field and
> comparing that to the different type structures?  It's much easier, and
> you don't have to again, "roll your own".  See the USB or Greybus code
> for examples of busses that have different "types" of devices on them at
> the same time.
>
> Ok, that's enough for now, please work on this, and we can go from
> there...
>

What would the next steps be, now that the patches are in staging-next?
Are there plans for a new round of review?

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Thanks & Best Regards, Laurentiu