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SubjectRE: 回覆: [PATCH] Add eSPI device driver (f lash channel)
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> On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 11:34:31AM +0000, ChiaWei Wang wrote:
> > We appreciate that you are willing to help on the open source contribution.
> > However, please co-work with Aspeed before submitting drivers of Aspeed
> HW.
> > Otherwise, a misleading driver on the community are going to bring tons of
> customer issues to Aspeed.
>
> It may not apply in this particular case as Aspeed did write the original driver
> and it is polite to work with previous authors when respinning a patchset, but in
> general there is no need to work with a hardware vendor before writing drivers
> for their hardware.
>
> Blocking a driver because that company might receive more support requests
> is not the kernel's problem.

I agree with that and Aspeed will not refuse to support.

However, in this case, the authors, IBM, and Aspeed already have discussion (at least 4 times) before and foresee "issues" on practical eSPI SAFS use.
If there is already a known issue of the driver, why ignoring the previous discussion and push it?
A compromise is to ask for driver renaming to espi-mafs to avoid confusion.
Otherwise we need to explain, again, why the driver does not fulfill the SAFS expectation.

Regards,
Chiawei

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