[PATCH V25 0/3] misc: Add driver support for Data Capture and Compare unit(DCC)

[Souradeep Chowdhury]

On 8/4/2023 7:19 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 04, 2023 at 03:47:26PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 03, 2023 at 07:35:18AM -0700, Trilok Soni wrote:
>>> On 8/3/2023 12:06 AM, Souradeep Chowdhury wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 6/28/2023 3:53 PM, Souradeep Chowdhury wrote:
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> https://git.codelinaro.org/clo/le/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/tools/-/tree/opensource-tools.lnx.1.0.r176-rel/dcc_parser
>>>>>
>>>>> Changes in v25
>>>>>
>>>>> * Updated the documentation of the structure dcc_config_entry as per
>>>>> the comments in V23
>>>>> * Updated the documentation of the dcc Kconfig definition as per
>>>>> comment in V24
>>>>> * Used u64 where applicable
>>>>> * Removed the mutex locks where it is not needed
>>>>> * Removed the use of unlikely keyword
>>>>> * Renamed "nr_link_list" to "max_link_list"
>>>>>
>>>>> Souradeep Chowdhury (3):
>>>>>     dt-bindings: misc: qcom,dcc: Add the dtschema
>>>>>     misc: dcc: Add driver support for Data Capture and Compare unit(DCC)
>>>>>     MAINTAINERS: Add the entry for DCC(Data Capture and Compare) driver
>>>>>       support
>>>>>
>>>>>    Documentation/ABI/testing/debugfs-driver-dcc  |   10 +-
>>>>>    .../devicetree/bindings/misc/qcom,dcc.yaml    |   44 +
>>>>>    MAINTAINERS                                   |    8 +
>>>>>    drivers/misc/Kconfig                          |    8 +
>>>>>    drivers/misc/Makefile                         |    1 +
>>>>>    drivers/misc/qcom-dcc.c                       | 1312 +++++++++++++++++
>>>>>    6 files changed, 1378 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>>>>    create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/misc/qcom,dcc.yaml
>>>>>    create mode 100644 drivers/misc/qcom-dcc.c
>>>>
>>>> Gentle Ping
>>>
>>> Thank you for the reminder Souradeep. Greg and others, please see if we need
>>> any changes here or it can be picked up?
>>
>> It would help if the code would actually build:
>>
>> drivers/misc/qcom-dcc.c: In function ‘ready_read’:
>> drivers/misc/qcom-dcc.c:853:13: error: unused variable ‘ret’ [-Werror=unused-variable]
>>    853 |         int ret = 0;
>>        |             ^~~
>>
>> {sigh}
>>
>> How in the world was this ever tested?
> 
> Ok, next time I want to see some QCOM engineers to sign off on this that
> it was actually tested and they can back it up that this is ready to be
> merged.  When the code doesn't even build, that is a huge red flag that
> this whole thing is being rushed as it obviously was never tested in the
> form that was submitted for inclusion.
> 
> You all know better than this.

My apologies on missing out on this, it is a W=1 level compilation 
warning that got suppressed on a normal kernel build. I will be
posting V26 by correcting this. Otherwise, this driver has no
functional issues and is already ported in downstream kernels.

> 
> greg k-h