From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Shevchenko Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/6] ACPI / bus: Rename acpi_get_match_data() to acpi_device_get_match_data() Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 18:12:02 +0200 Message-ID: <1517847122.22495.35.camel@linux.intel.com> References: <20180201202012.36524-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> <20180201202012.36524-4-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mga07.intel.com ([134.134.136.100]:53738 "EHLO mga07.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752972AbeBEQMG (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Feb 2018 11:12:06 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: dmaengine , "Rafael J . Wysocki" , ACPI Devel Maling List , Sinan Kaya , Sakari Ailus , Vinod Koul On Sun, 2018-02-04 at 08:23 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 9:20 PM, Andy Shevchenko > wrote: > > Do the renaming to be consistent with its sibling, i.e. > > of_device_get_match_data(). > > > > No functional change. > > > > Fixes: 80212a162329 ("ACPI / bus: Introduce acpi_get_match_data() > > function") > > Fixes: 146b4dbb0eef ("ACPI: properties: Implement get_match_data() > > callback") > > Why are you adding the Fixes: tags to a patch that doesn't make any > functional changes? > > What are they useful for? Because next patch depends on this one and fixes API. So, here the Fixes tags to be sure that next will apply cleanly. -- Andy Shevchenko Intel Finland Oy