[PATCH net v2 1/2] net: ll_temac: Fix DMA resources leak

Katakam, Harini harini.katakam at amd.com
Wed Sep 20 04:56:00 PDT 2023


Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Katakam, Harini <harini.katakam at amd.com>
> Sent: Monday, July 10, 2023 11:21 AM
> To: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet at wanadoo.fr>; Jakub Kicinski
> <kuba at kernel.org>; Jonas Suhr Christensen <jsc at umbraculum.org>
> Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni at redhat.com>; netdev at vger.kernel.org; David S.
> Miller <davem at davemloft.net>; Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>;
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> Subject: RE: RE: [PATCH net v2 1/2] net: ll_temac: Fix DMA resources leak
> 
> Hi Christophe,
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet at wanadoo.fr>
> > Sent: Saturday, July 8, 2023 6:46 PM
> > To: Katakam, Harini <harini.katakam at amd.com>; Jakub Kicinski
> > <kuba at kernel.org>; Jonas Suhr Christensen <jsc at umbraculum.org>
> > Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni at redhat.com>; netdev at vger.kernel.org; David S.
> > Miller <davem at davemloft.net>; Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>;
> > Michal Simek <michal.simek at xilinx.com>; Haoyue Xu
> > <xuhaoyue1 at hisilicon.com>; huangjunxian
> <huangjunxian6 at hisilicon.com>;
> > Wang Qing <wangqing at vivo.com>; Yang Yingliang
> > <yangyingliang at huawei.com>; Esben Haabendal <esben at geanix.com>;
> linux-
> > arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org; linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org; Neeli,
> > Srinivas <srinivas.neeli at amd.com>
> > Subject: Re: RE: [PATCH net v2 1/2] net: ll_temac: Fix DMA resources
> > leak
> >
<snip>
> > >>
> > >> Harini, are you the designated maintainer for this driver? Could
> > >> you add a MAINTAINERS entry for it? I don't see one right now.
> > >> And possibly pick up these patches / fix the problem, if you have the
> cycles?
> > >
> > > Sure, Srinivas (cced) will pick up this series and send a v3.
> > > I'll get back on the state of this IP/driver for the maintainers list.
> > > Will include that patch in the beginning of the series as well.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Harini
> > >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > this patch, or an updated version, has not reached -next yet.
> >
> > Does someone still working on it, or did it got lost?
> 
> Apologies, we dint get a chance to close on this. We'll fix and re-spin next
> month.
> This IP and driver are in minimal support mode right now.
> We'll update the maintainers entry.

We checked internally for hardware to test this and concluded that this IP
is no longer supported and driver cannot be maintained.
I have just sent a patch to add an obsolete MAINTAINERS entry for this driver.
Apologies for not updating the state earlier.

Regards,
Harini


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