From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] spi: clps711x: Driver refactor Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2014 20:03:24 +0100 Message-ID: <1466537.jU4x6flQ6J@wuerfel> References: <1388556568-10973-1-git-send-email-shc_work@mail.ru> <201401021846.23488.arnd@arndb.de> <20140102182549.GF31886@sirena.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: linux-arm-kernel-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org, Alexander Shiyan , linux-spi-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Mark Brown Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20140102182549.GF31886-GFdadSzt00ze9xe1eoZjHA@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-spi-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: On Thursday 02 January 2014 18:25:49 Mark Brown wrote: > On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 06:46:23PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > I definitely agree with what you say, but please note that Alexander is > > the only person who ever sends clps711x patches, so there is not much > > hope of collaboration. I also suspect he's the only one who would > > There's stuff been going in from the people who do generic cleanups and > updates. Yes, I meant patches for new clps711x functionality. I saw the cleanups as well. > > suffer from accidental breakage, especially since the existing driver > > is not used anywhere upstream (no instance of platform data, and no > > DT support). > > Right. On the other hand I really don't want to get into setting bad > precedents that people then use when they complain that I actually want > to review their code, that's just going to be more miserable in the long > run. Makes sense. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-spi" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html