Re: [PATCH v5 00/17] PCI: rcar-gen4: Recover from link down and route Root Port interrupts

[Koichiro Den]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2026 at 10:03:23AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Den-san,
> 
> Thanks for your series!
> 
> On Tue, 20 Oct 2026 at 05:11, Koichiro Den <den@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Proposed merge plan
> > -------------------
> >
> > With v5, this series seems to have almost converged, so I'd like to ask
> > how maintainers would prefer to merge it. Any advice would be greatly
> > appreciated. Here's what I have in mind:
> >
> > To Mani:
> >
> >   I'd expect patches 1-14 to go through the PCI tree.
> >   One option would be a two-stage approach like:
> >
> >   1. Take patches 1/2/5/10 through controller/dwc ("PCI: dwc:" patches).
> >   2. Once those patches are available in controller/dwc-rcar-gen4,
> >      take the remaining patches 3/4/6-9/11-14 there
> >      (the R-Car driver and binding patches).
> >
> > To Geert:
> >
> >   Once patch 4 is available in renesas-devel, I'd like to ask you to
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^(a)
> >   take patches 15-17 together.
> 
> I don't think I have to wait that long, as there is no hard dependency?
> As soon as the DT bindings (patch 4) are accepted in pci/next, I can
> queue the DTS patches in renesas-devel?

Hm, you're absolutely right, waiting for patch 4 to be accepted in pci/next is
enough. Let me correct that part as you suggest, i.e. s#renesas-devel#pci/next#
at (a) above.

Thank you!

Best regards,
Koichiro Den

> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
>                         Geert
> 
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