Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] Initial support for XPowers AXP288 PMIC

Maxime Ripard
2014-09-15T09:05:10Z

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On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 12:36:45PM -0700, Jacob Pan wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 17:18:24 +0200
> Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 04:15:52PM -0700, Jacob Pan wrote:
> > > XPowers AXP288 is a customized PMIC found on some Intel Baytrail-CR
> > > platforms. It comes with sub-functions such as USB charging, fuel
> > > gauge, ADC, and many LDO and BUCK channels.
> > >
> > > By extending the existing AXP20x driver, this patchset adds basic
> > > support for AXP288 PMIC with GPADC as one MFD cell device driver.
> > > It also adds hooks for ACPI opregion handler driver which can be
> > > used to handle ACPI requests.
> > >
> > > Currently, the PMIC driver in this patchset does not support
> > > platform data enumeration. But when ACPI _DSD and unified device
> > > properties become available, cell devices with platform data will
> > > be added.
> > >
> > > This patch does not use intel_soc_pmic core for i2c and regmap
> > > handling in that axp288 shares similar programming interface with
> > > other Xpower PMICs supported in axp20x.c. Therefore, extending
> > > axp20x.c to include axp288 makes more sense.
> > >
> > > Changes
> > > v3: - put all file rename changes in 1/5
> >
> > The variables renaming are still not in 1/5....
> >
> 1/5 is for file rename such that the follow up patches are more
> readable.

Which is exactly my point. So why don't you apply it to the variable
renames as well?

> There are so many details in variable rename, I think it
> belongs to the patch that expands the new device support.

This has nothing to do in this patch. Remember that one patch should
do one thing. You're obviously doing 2 in the second patch, and just
like you pointed out, the renaming just make the whole thing less
readable.

Maxime

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