[PATCH V2 0/3] Add vchi_queue_kernel_message and vchi_queue_user_message

[Michael Zoran]

On Wed, 2017-01-25 at 17:12 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > Again, that's not my decision.  I can go either way.  But if the
> > decision was made to delete it, I think the 4.10 version should
> > also be
> > deleted because the same logic applies.  Nothing uses it 4.10
> > either
> > and 4.10 is still an RC.
> 
> Nah.  No rush.  We can delete it in another kernel release or two if
> we
> can't figure out the issue.
> 
> Let's first figure out why the other code hasn't been upstreamed. 
> You
> must have at least looked at it to be sending these patches.  Do you
> know what the story is?

No, not really.  Some of it may simply be that nobody has taken the
time to upstream them.

Some of it my be the nature of the RPI which is fundamentially(at least
the history of it), a toy.  Either for children or people that want to
tinker with things.  So some of the downstream code doesn't always
follow all the rules that upstream drivers would.  Because like I said
at least historically, it's a toy.

I have submitted some small changes to the drivers that hook into
vc04_services mostly for HDMI audio.   But it's only small changes...

Like I said, my goal here was simply to get ARM64 to work on the RPI3
and HDMI audio was important to me.   And vc04_services was necessary
to getting it to work.