From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 10:11:57 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Philipp Zabel Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" , Emilio =?iso-8859-1?Q?L=F3pez?= , Adrian Hunter , Alan Stern , Alan Tull , Alexandre Torgue , Andrew Lunn , Ben Skeggs , Benjamin Gaignard , Bin Liu , Bjorn Andersson , Bjorn Helgaas , Boris Brezillon , Brian Norris , Chanwoo Choi , Chen Feng , Chen-Yu Tsai , Corentin Labbe , Cyrille Pitchen , Dan Williams , Daniel Lezcano , David Airlie , David Woodhouse , Dmitry Torokhov , Eduardo Valentin , Felipe Balbi , Florian Fainelli , Giuseppe Cavallaro , Guenter Roeck , Hartmut Knaack , Heiko Stuebner , Herbert Xu , Jaehoon Chung , Jiri Slaby , Joachim Eastwood , John Youn , Jon Hunter , Jonathan Cameron , Jonathan Corbet , Kalle Valo , Kishon Vijay Abraham I , Kyungmin Park , Lars-Peter Clausen , Laxman Dewangan , Lee Jones , Liam Girdwood , Linus Walleij , Lucas Stach , Marc Dietrich , Marek Vasut , Mark Brown , Mark Yao , Mathias Nyman , Matthias Brugger , Maxime Coquelin , Maxime Ripard , Michael Turquette , Moritz Fischer , MyungJoo Ham , Ohad Ben-Cohen , Patrice Chotard , Peter Chen , Peter De Schrijver , Peter Meerwald-Stadler , Philippe Cornu , Prashant Gaikwad , Rakesh Iyer , Ralf Baechle , Richard Weinberger , Richard Zhu , Rongrong Zou , Ryder Lee , Salil Mehta , Shawn Lin , Srinivas Kandagatla , Stanimir Varbanov , Stephen Boyd , Tejun Heo , Thierry Reding , Thomas Gleixner , Ulf Hansson , Vincent Abriou , Vinod Koul , Vivien Didelot , Wim Van Sebroeck , Wolfram Sang , Xinliang Liu , Xinwei Kong , Yannick Fertre , Yisen Zhuang , Zhang Rui , alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, ath10k@lists.infradead.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, dmaengine@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, linux-clk@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-fpga@vger.kernel.org, linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-pwm@vger.kernel.org, linux-remoteproc@vger.kernel.org, linux-rockchip@lists.infradead.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-spi@vger.kernel.org, linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 000/102] Convert drivers to explicit reset API Message-ID: <20170720081157.GA11630@kroah.com> References: <20170719152646.25903-1-p.zabel@pengutronix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170719152646.25903-1-p.zabel@pengutronix.de> List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 05:25:04PM +0200, Philipp Zabel wrote: > The reset control API has two modes: exclusive access, where the driver > expects to have full and immediate control over the state of the reset > line, and shared (clock-like) access, where drivers only request reset > deassertion while active, but don't care about the state of the reset line > while inactive. > > Commit a53e35db70d1 ("reset: Ensure drivers are explicit when requesting > reset lines") started to transition the reset control request API calls > to explicitly state whether the driver needs exclusive or shared reset > control behavior. > > This series converts all drivers that currently implicitly request > exclusive reset controls to the corresponding explicit API call. It is, > for the most part, generated from the following semantic patch: Hey, I'm all for large api changes, but this really seems ackward, isn't there a "better" way to do this? Why not, as you say the "implicit" request is exclusive, just leave everything alone and state that the "reset_control_get()" call is exclusive and make the shared one the "odd" usage as that seems to not be the normal case. That should be a much smaller patch right? That way you don't break everything here, and require 100+ patches to just change the name of a function from one to another and do nothing else. thanks, greg k-h