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From: "Andrew F. Davis" <afd@ti.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>, Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@gmail.com>,
	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>,
	Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
	devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] mfd: tps65912: Rewrite driver adding DT support and using regmap
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 14:46:50 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56005EAA.3000208@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150921192645.GA30445@sirena.org.uk>

On 09/21/2015 02:26 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 11:42:13AM -0500, Andrew F. Davis wrote:
>
>> I know this is hard to review, and so I would like to apologize in advance, but
>> the regulator and GPIO changes depend on the new driver core, as do the i2c/spi
>> components. I really don't know how to split this up without leaving some part
>> in a non-working state in-between patches (which I've heard is also not OK).
>
> So split that interface change between the MFD and the function drivers
> out into a separate change - you've got way more than just an interface
> change in here (and you've not enumerated the various things that are
> being changed in the changelog).
>

I'm not really "changing" anything, this is a ground-up re-write. This
fundamentally changes the way the MFD core and the function drivers interact,
I would consider this a whole new driver that just happens to replace an older
driver, not a bunch of incremental changes although I kept the same filenames.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-21 19:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-15 17:57 [PATCH 0/3] mfd: tps65912: Driver rewrite with DT support Andrew F. Davis
2015-09-15 17:57 ` [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: tps65912: Add DT bindings for the TPS65912 PMIC Andrew F. Davis
2015-09-20  4:16   ` Lee Jones
2015-09-21 16:32     ` Andrew F. Davis
2015-09-21 23:07       ` Lee Jones
2015-09-22 19:58         ` Andrew F. Davis
2015-09-15 17:57 ` [PATCH 2/3] mfd: tps65912: Rewrite driver adding DT support and using regmap Andrew F. Davis
2015-09-19 18:40   ` Mark Brown
2015-09-21 16:42     ` Andrew F. Davis
2015-09-21 19:26       ` Mark Brown
2015-09-21 19:46         ` Andrew F. Davis [this message]
2015-09-21 19:54           ` Mark Brown
     [not found]             ` <20150921195457.GD30445-GFdadSzt00ze9xe1eoZjHA@public.gmane.org>
2015-09-21 19:59               ` Andrew F. Davis
2015-09-20  4:16   ` Lee Jones
2015-09-21 18:22     ` Andrew F. Davis
     [not found]       ` <56004AE8.5030504-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org>
2015-09-21 23:04         ` Lee Jones
2015-09-15 17:57 ` [PATCH 3/3] tps65912: Cleanup TPS65912 subdevice configuration dependencies Andrew F. Davis
2015-09-16 19:57   ` Mark Brown
2015-10-02 10:23   ` Linus Walleij

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