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SubjectRe: [PATCH] ARM: dts: cygnus: Add HWRNG node
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On 18-06-06 10:06 AM, Clément Péron wrote:
> Hi Scott, Florian,
>
> On Wed, 6 Jun 2018 at 18:47, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 06/06/201 8 09:03 AM, Scott Branden wrote:
>>> Hi Clement,
>>>
>>>
>>> On 18-06-06 02:34 AM, Clément Péron wrote:
>>>> From: Clément Peron <clement.peron@devialet.com>
>>>>
>>>> There is a HWRNG in Broadcom Cygnus SoC, so enable it.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Clément Peron <clement.peron@devialet.com>
>>> Thanks for upstreaming some missing Cygnus components.
>>>
>>> But, the problem is the tarball release from Broadcom you are extracting
>>> these changes from does not contain git history; so, you are missing the
>>> original authors and signed-off's.
>>> I checked our internal git repository and for this commit the author is:
>>> Mohamed Ismail Abdul Packir Mohamed <mohamed-ismail.abdul@broadcom.com>
>>>
>>> Please adjust author and signed-off appropriately. If there are other
>>> changes you are extracting from the source tarballs you have please
>>> contact me so we can construct patch appropriately.
>> If you want the original author's Signed-off-by to be preserved, why
>> don't you extract it from your internal git tree and submit the patch on
>> Mohamed's behalf?
>>
>> AFAICT what Clement is doing here is permissible given the Linux
>> developer certificate of origin though I am not a lawyer of course.
>> --
>> Florian
> Totally not my goal to steal the author and agree to keep track of the
> original author
> as soon as it's possible. I didn't though it was important for this
> patch as the same
> code is available in the dt-bindings documentation.
>
> Actually there are still some buggy components like DSA (Arun proposed
> a patch this morning)
> the PWM (config and delay aren't correct) and I2C. These are mainlined
> but can't be used
> and need a minimal effort to correctly work on Cygnus.
We have internal versions of most everything.  It's a matter of getting
people to push the appropriate patches out for upstream version to work.
Please contact the bcm-kernel-feedback list with issues and we can work
through common solution (or, likely already have a solution just not
upstreamed).
>
> Also there are some important components like USB Phy or Mailbox that
> were proposed and
> almost made it, but just need a small modification to be accepted.
Again - we may have internal solution already.  Yes, mailbox was
submitted upstream a long time ago and I think got stalled being
accepted upstream.  We can work through upstream solution by starting
with sending to bcm-kernel-feedback-list to discuss details.
>
> My idea was just to submit small patches that are trivial to review.
> In order to avoid keeping
> lots of patches in our kernel and also have something functional when
> building a mainline kernel.
I understand the difficulty you would have if you're trying to work with
a different kernel version in our release.  If you send me a list
directly of the drivers you use in Cygnus that will help me get those
changes prioritized to be pushed upstream.  And/or we can work together
on that.
>
> Regards,
> Clement
Thanks,
 Scott

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