[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 0/8] sf: improve support of (Q)SPI flash memories

[Marek Vasut]

On 08/26/2017 08:14 AM, Jagan Teki wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 4:35 AM, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 12:45 AM, Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
>>> On 08/25/2017 06:28 PM, Jagan Teki wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 9:43 PM, Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
>>>>> On 08/25/2017 06:07 PM, Jagan Teki wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 6:47 AM, Yang, Wenyou <Wenyou.Yang at microchip.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This patch set has been here for a long time, could you have a look and take
>>>>>>> it?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yeah, I'm holding this because of my current spi-nor work. But anyway
>>>>>> I will try to merge on coming MW If all OK.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is your work posted somewhere or available in some git repository ?
>>>
>>> You did not answer this question.
>>>
>>>>> I don't see any reason why you should not perform your maintainer duties
>>>>> by reviewing/replying to an incoming patch, no matter what work you do
>>>>> to the subsystem though ...
>>>>
>>>> I didn't write "this series holding spi-nor work" since it has some
>>>> new features I'm taking time to review.
>>>
>>> I never implied this. Rather the opposite, you claim you do some work on
>>> the SPI NOR core, yet you let this patchset rot in the list for over a
>>> month now and gave the author zero feedback.
>>>
>>> Notifying the author about the core changes early could've prevented a
>>> lot of wasted effort on his side. Reviewing early could've prevented a
>>> lot of frustration from patches being ignored.
>>>
>>>> There is nothing wrong with
>>>> maintainer duties here, you must need to understand.
>>>
>>> I disagree.
>>>
>>
>> I agree with Marek here. I found it's really hard to get feedback for
>> SF patches in time and what I have to do is to ping again and again.
> 
> I agree that the SF side patches have got some delay recently, but ie
> something not intentional. SF stack is not stable as of now, so I'm
> working on SPI-NOR (v10)[1] the new patches for SF need to wait -
> please be patient.

What are the problems with the stack causing this instability ?

How do you plan to stabilize the stack for the current release ?

Given how complex and incomplete this patch(set) [1] is and that it's
already in v10, it seems it will take a while to get it into shape in
which it can be included in mainline. Blocking all other contributions
because of this patchset seems wrong and hurtful to the contributors to me.

> [1] http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot-spi.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/mtd-spinor
> 
> thanks!
> 


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Best regards,
Marek Vasut