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From: "Andrew F. Davis" <afd-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] mfd: tps65912: Rewrite driver adding DT support and
 using regmap
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 14:59:59 -0500
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On 09/21/2015 02:54 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 02:46:50PM -0500, Andrew F. Davis wrote:
>> On 09/21/2015 02:26 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>
> So split out the deletion then add the new driver like you'd add any
> other new driver.  If there were in tree users even that would be really
> problematic but it does seem like we don't have any so perhaps people
> will be OK with this.
>

OK, I'll split that in v2.
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