Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] hwmon: (nct6775) Convert to regmap, add i2c support

[Zev Weiss <zev@bewilderbeest.net>]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 01:57:40AM PDT, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>On 4/26/22 01:29, Zev Weiss wrote:
>>[Adding korg webmaster re: list infrastructure]
>>
>>On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 12:18:42AM PDT, Zev Weiss wrote:
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>This is v3 of my effort to add i2c support to the nct6775 hwmon
>>>driver.
>>>
>>>Changes since v2 [0]:
>>>...
>>>- Renamed drivers and Kconfig symbols to keep existing platform
>>>  driver as "nct6775" (SENSORS_NCT6775) and the core module as
>>>  "nct6775-core" (SENSORS_NCT6775_CORE) [Guenter]
>>
>>Unfortunately while this was a simple enough change to make (a few 'git mv' commands and a handful of actual text changes), it ballooned the size of the diff for patch 5 to the point that vger bounced it for exceeding the 100K message-size limit.  As far as I can tell it looks like it went through elsewhere, but does leave a bit of a gap in the public list archives -- please let me know if there's anything I should try in terms of re-sending it.  (The only combination of 'git format-patch' flags I've been able to find that gets it back down to approximately its previous size is '-B -D', which isn't so useful for actually applying.)
>>
>>I'm not sure how critical a limit that 100K is, or if it's something we might consider raising a bit?
>>
>
>You could split it up further. For example, you could introduce
>the include file first. Also, please run checkpatch --strict on
>your patches. I don't care about commenting the mutex, but there
>should be no double empty lines. Also, while you are at it,
>it would be great if you can add another patch to fix the
>
>WARNING: Symbolic permissions 'S_IWUSR | S_IRUGO' are not preferred. Consider using octal permissions '0644'.
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>warnings.

Ack -- hadn't been aware of the --strict flag for checkpatch, thanks.  
I'll do that in v4.

>
>Anyway, I wondered what changed... oh, I see. You didn't rename
>nct6775.c. I didn't suggest that. The new file name was fine.
>I only asked you to change the Kconfig symbols, not the file names.
>It is ok and actually desirable to change the file names.
>The platform driver module can and should still be named nct6775;
>that can be handled in the Makefile with something like
>
>nct6775-objs := nct6775-platform.o
>obj-$(CONFIG_SENSORS_NCT6775)  += nct6775.o
>

Got it, will revert to the previous file names, which should sidestep 
the message-size problem.


Thanks,
Zev