Re: [PATCH v5 0/6] MT8173 IOMMU SUPPORT

From	Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH v5 0/6] MT8173 IOMMU SUPPORT
Date	2015-11-24 11:40 +0100
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On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 01:58:13PM +0800, Yong Wu wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-10-23 at 11:26 +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 12:40:02PM +0800, Yong Wu wrote:
> > >      But the mtk-iommu depend on the drivers/memory/mtk-smi.c(mtk-iommu
> > > has called a function of the mtk-smi).
> > >      So if there is dependence here, How should we do to merge them?
> > 
> > I can surely merge mtk-smi too, if it gets proper Reviewed-by and
> > Acked-by tags from the maintainer(s).
> > 
> > 
> > 	Joerg
> > 
> Hi Joerg,
> 
>    About the driver/memory/, We don't know who is his maintainer.
> MAINTAINERS file don't have drivers/memory maintainer.
> From the history in drivers/memory/ it looks like most of the
> drivers land with an ack from the architecture maintainer.
> And Matthias Brugger is our "ARM/Mediatek SoC support" maintainer.
> 
> Then do you mean that we need Matthias's ACK or whom others?

Yes, I think the sub-architecture maintainer's ACK is probably going to
be as good as it gets. Historically drivers/memory hasn't had enough of
a common ground to instate a framework.

Thierry

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Re: [PATCH v5 0/6] MT8173 IOMMU SUPPORT Yong Wu <yong.wu@mediatek.com> - 2015-11-24 07:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v5 0/6] MT8173 IOMMU SUPPORT Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com> - 2015-11-24 11:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v5 0/6] MT8173 IOMMU SUPPORT Yong Wu <yong.wu@mediatek.com> - 2015-11-25 02:40 +0100

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