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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Jun Chen <jun.d.chen@intel.com>
Cc: grant.likely@secretlab.ca, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Bi Chao <chao.bi@intel.com>,
	spi-devel-general@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] spi: Add the flag indicate to registe new device as children of master or not.
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:26:26 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121218152623.GA26077@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1355848174.1435.25.camel@chenjun-workstation>

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 11:29:34AM -0500, Jun Chen wrote:

>   * @master: Controller to which device is connected
> + * device_was_children_of_master is flag which the device is registed
> + * as the children of the bus

This isn't a kerneldoc style comment (it needs the @XXX: format).  The
name is also extremely long, can't we think of something more concise?

> -	spi->dev.parent = &master->dev;
> +	if (device_was_children_of_master == true)
> +		spi->dev.parent = &master->dev;
> +	else
> +		spi->dev.parent = dev;

Can you provide an example of where this is useful?  Your changelog
didn't make it clear and the code doesn't make it obvious either.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-18 15:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-18 16:29 [PATCH] spi: Add the flag indicate to registe new device as children of master or not Jun Chen
2012-12-18 15:26 ` Mark Brown [this message]
     [not found]   ` <20121218152623.GA26077-GFdadSzt00ze9xe1eoZjHA@public.gmane.org>
2012-12-19  9:44     ` Jun Chen
2012-12-19  9:04       ` Mark Brown
     [not found]         ` <20121219090416.GK4985-yzvPICuk2AATkU/dhu1WVueM+bqZidxxQQ4Iyu8u01E@public.gmane.org>
2012-12-19 16:21           ` Grant Likely
2012-12-21 17:39             ` Jun Chen
2012-12-21 19:06               ` Grant Likely
2012-12-24 16:16                 ` Jun Chen
2013-01-11 14:57                   ` Grant Likely

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