[PATCH v1 0/2] Fix the wrong order of phy callbacks

[Hongxing Zhu]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas at kernel.org>
> Sent: 2022年8月30日 23:06
> To: Hongxing Zhu <hongxing.zhu at nxp.com>
> Cc: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at pengutronix.de>; l.stach at pengutronix.de;
> bhelgaas at google.com; lorenzo.pieralisi at arm.com; vkoul at kernel.org; Marcel
> Ziswiler <marcel.ziswiler at toradex.com>; kishon at ti.com;
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/2] Fix the wrong order of phy callbacks
> 
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 07:50:55AM +0000, Hongxing Zhu wrote:
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> > > From: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at pengutronix.de>
> > > Sent: 2022年8月30日 15:16
> > > To: Hongxing Zhu <hongxing.zhu at nxp.com>; l.stach at pengutronix.de;
> > > bhelgaas at google.com; lorenzo.pieralisi at arm.com; vkoul at kernel.org;
> > > Marcel Ziswiler <marcel.ziswiler at toradex.com>; kishon at ti.com
> > > Cc: linux-pci at vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org;
> > > dl-linux-imx <linux-imx at nxp.com>; kernel at pengutronix.de;
> > > linux-phy at lists.infradead.org; linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> > > Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/2] Fix the wrong order of phy callbacks
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> On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 07:50:55AM +0000, Hongxing Zhu wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 30, 2022, at 03:16PM, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> > > On 30.08.22 05:47, Hongxing Zhu wrote:
> > > > Do you mean to squash this fix to the preview series?
> > > > I'm afraid that it's not easy to do that.
> > > > Because there are a lot of pci-imx6 code changes after
> > > > commit: 1aa97b002258 ("phy: freescale: pcie: Initialize the imx8
> > > > pcie standalone phy driver").
> > >
> > > The way I understand it, if a bisect ends up between your two
> > > patches, i.MX8M PCIe will be broken, whereas it worked before. I
> > > thus wonder if we shouldn't instead squash this series here into a
> > > single patch.
> >
> > Yes, it's a possible case when do the bisect.
> > Since these changes are belong to different git repo.
> 
> I don't understand the point about different git repos.  Patch 1/2 touches
> drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pci-imx6.c, patch 2/2 touches
> drivers/phy/freescale/phy-fsl-imx8m-pcie.c.  They're in different directories,
> of course, but are in the same Linux kernel source repo.
> 
> They're maintained by different people, but we can easily deal with that by
> getting an ack from one and merging via the other.
> 
> > It will bring maintain difficulties if these two patches are squashed
> > into a  single one.
> > It's difficult to make a choice.
> 
> What maintenance difficulty do you see here?  I think it looks
> *easier* if these are squashed -- that would avoid the possibility of backporting
> one without the other, which would certainly be a problem.
> 
> If a bisect lands after patch 1/2 but before 2/2, it looks like i.MX8M will break
> unnecessarily.
> 
> I think Ahmad is right that patches 1/2 and 2/2 should be squashed into a
> single patch to avoid this bisection hole.
Hi Bjorn:
Thanks for your comments.
My descriptions are not accurate enough. These two files are maintained by
 different people, I'm afraid to bring troubles to the maintainers if
I squash these two patch into a single one before.
Now, I understood the situation.
I'm glad to squash them to avoid the bisetion hole.
Thanks again.

Best Regards
Richard Zhu
> 
> Bjorn