Re: [PATCH v8 1/6] pwm: Rename pwm_apply_state() to pwm_apply_might_sleep()

[Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>]

On 12/12/23 03:41, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 08:34:00AM +0000, Sean Young wrote:
>> In order to introduce a pwm api which can be used from atomic context,
>> we will need two functions for applying pwm changes:
>>
>> 	int pwm_apply_might_sleep(struct pwm *, struct pwm_state *);
>> 	int pwm_apply_atomic(struct pwm *, struct pwm_state *);
>>
>> This commit just deals with renaming pwm_apply_state(), a following
>> commit will introduce the pwm_apply_atomic() function.
>>
>> Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> # for input
>> Acked-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
>> Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
>> Acked-by: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Sean Young <sean@mess.org>
> 
> Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
> 
> Several affected maintainers already acked, so I guess it's fine to take
> this via the pwm tree. An Ack from the remaining maintainers would be
> very welcome, an alternative would be to split the patch.
> 
> Missing Acks so far:
> 
>   - Jean Delvare / Guenter Roeck for drivers/hwmon/pwm-fan.c
>   - Javier Martinez Canillas for drivers/gpu/drm/solomon/ssd130x.c
>   - Liam Girdwood / Mark Brown for drivers/regulator/pwm-regulator.c
>   - Helge Deller for drivers/video/fbdev/ssd1307fb.c
> 
> Best regards
> Uwe
> 


Personally I find the change unnecessary and pointless, which is why I
didn't ack it. Even if function names were deemed important enough, keeping
pwm_apply_state() for the time being and just adding pwm_apply_might_sleep()
as duplicate would have done it, all the changes could have gone in long
ago, and per-subsystem cleanup could have been orthogonal.

I refrained from commenting because it might be considered bike shedding,
but I don't want to ack something I deem unnecessary and pointless without
comment. But then don't want to keep arguing either, so

Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>

Guenter