[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2 V4] misc: add "call" uclass op

[Simon Glass]

Hi Stephen,

On 11 August 2016 at 16:17, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
> On 08/08/2016 02:33 PM, Tom Warren wrote:
>>
>> Simon,
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Stephen Warren [mailto:swarren at wwwdotorg.org]
>>> Sent: Monday, August 08, 2016 12:54 PM
>>> To: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
>>> Cc: U-Boot Mailing List <u-boot at lists.denx.de>; Tom Warren
>>> <TWarren at nvidia.com>; Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>; Tom Rini
>>> <trini at konsulko.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2 V4] misc: add "call" uclass op
>>>
>>> On 08/08/2016 01:47 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
>>>>
>>>> +Tom
>>>>
>>>> Hi Stephen,
>>>>
>>>> On 8 August 2016 at 10:41, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org>
>>>
>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 08/08/2016 10:38 AM, Simon Glass wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Stephen,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 8 August 2016 at 09:41, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org>
>>>
>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> From: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The call op requests that the callee pass a message to the
>>>>>>> underlying HW or device, wait for a response, and then pass back
>>>>>>> the response error code and message to the callee. It is useful for
>>>>>>> drivers that represent some kind of messaging or IPC channel to a
>>>>>>> remote device.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
>>>>>>> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>> v4: Adjust misc_call() to return the response msg size on success.
>>>>>>> v3: New patch.
>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>  drivers/misc/misc-uclass.c | 11 +++++++++++
>>>>>>>  include/misc.h             | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>>>>  2 files changed, 46 insertions(+)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Are you planning for the Tegra186 stuff to go into the upcoming
>>>>>> release?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd like it to if at all possible; it's all pretty much
>>>>> Tegra-specific drivers so shouldn't cause any fallout for other
>>>>> platforms. The only exception is the fdt_translate_address() changes,
>>>>> which are a dependency, which will be built into other platforms, but
>>>>> there's a simple Boolean parameter that controls the new behaviour, so
>>>>> it
>>>
>>> should be pretty safe.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> OK, sounds reasonable to me. I'll pick these up later in the week and
>>>> send a pull request. Can you bring any other dependencies in via
>>>> Tegra?
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, I was assuming that TomW would take everything else; it's all Tegra
>>> drivers.
>
>>
>>
>> Stephen and I are working together to get it all packaged up and in to
>> u-boot-tegra ASAP.
>
>
> Simon, any word on the u-boot-dm pull request? TomW is waiting for it before
> applying all the Tegra commits on top of it so he won't have to rebase, and
> he'd probably best send a Tegra pull request on Friday in order to make
> -rc2, which would be good to do. Thanks.

Yes, I'm testing u-boot-dm/testing and will send it if all is well.

Regards,
Simon