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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Ladislav Michl <ladis@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	LM Sensors <sensors@Stimpy.netroedge.com>,
	James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i2c: new driver for ds1337 RTC
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 14:18:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050407211839.GA5357@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050407142804.GA11284@orphique>

On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 04:28:04PM +0200, Ladislav Michl wrote:
> Here is yet another patch this time fixes only.
> CHANGELOG:
> * use i2_tranfer function instead of adapter->algo->master_xfer, so
>   we have proper bus locking.
> * BCD2BIN and BIN2BCD are proper macros to use here, see linux/bcd.h
> * Move NULL argument checking from get/set date functions to
>   ds1337_command function, so it is only at one place. Note that other
>   drivers do not this checking at all and I think it is pointess,
>   because you have to know that you are passing struct rtc_time anyway.
> * dev_dbg should probably print info about device driver we are
>   debugging so client->dev looks as better choice than
>   client->adapter->dev.

Jean's point is that you should send an individual patch for each type
of individual change.  It's ok to say "patch 3 requires you to have
applied patches 1 and 2" and so on.  Please split this up better.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-07 21:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-31 23:22 [BK PATCH] I2C patches for 2.6.12-rc1 Greg KH
2005-03-31 23:23 ` [PATCH] i2c/i2c-ite: remove interruptible_sleep_on_timeout() usage Greg KH
2005-03-31 23:23   ` [PATCH] i2c/i2c-elektor: " Greg KH
2005-03-31 23:23     ` [PATCH] I2C: New lm92 chip driver Greg KH
2005-03-31 23:23       ` [PATCH] I2C: Cleanup adm1021 unused defines Greg KH
2005-03-31 23:23         ` [PATCH] I2C: Fix adm1021 alarms mask Greg KH
2005-03-31 23:23           ` [PATCH] I2C: Kill unused struct members in w83627hf driver Greg KH
2005-03-31 23:23             ` [PATCH] I2C: Make master_xfer debug messages more useful Greg KH
2005-03-31 23:23               ` [PATCH] I2C: Skip broken detection step in it87 Greg KH
2005-03-31 23:23                 ` [PATCH] I2C: group Intel on I2C Hardware Bus support Greg KH
2005-03-31 23:23                   ` [PATCH] i2c: new driver for ds1337 RTC Greg KH
2005-03-31 23:23                     ` [PATCH] i2c: add adt7461 chip support to lm90 driver Greg KH
2005-03-31 23:23                       ` [PATCH] I2C: Clean up of i2c-elektor.c build Greg KH
2005-03-31 23:23                         ` [PATCH] I2C: Fix breakage in m41t00 i2c rtc driver Greg KH
2005-03-31 23:23                           ` [PATCH] I2C: Fix some i2c algorithm initialization Greg KH
2005-03-31 23:23                             ` [PATCH] I2C: Kill outdated defines in i2c.h Greg KH
2005-03-31 23:23                               ` [PATCH] I2C: Avoid repeated resets of i2c-viapro Greg KH
2005-03-31 23:23                                 ` [PATCH] I2C: Recognize new revision of the ADT7463 chip Greg KH
2005-03-31 23:23                                   ` [PATCH] I2C: Fix Vaio EEPROM detection Greg KH
2005-03-31 23:23                                     ` [PATCH] I2C: busses documentation update 1 of 2 Greg KH
2005-03-31 23:23                                       ` [PATCH] I2C: busses documentation update 2 " Greg KH
2005-03-31 23:23                                         ` [PATCH] I2C: lost arbitration detection for PCF8584 Greg KH
2005-03-31 23:23                                           ` [PATCH] I2C: lsb in emc6d102 and adm1027 Greg KH
2005-03-31 23:23                                             ` [PATCH] I2C: Delete useless instruction in it87 Greg KH
2005-03-31 23:23                                               ` [PATCH] I2C: Fix race condition in it87 driver Greg KH
2005-03-31 23:23                                                 ` [PATCH] I2C: i2c-s3c2410 functionality and fixes Greg KH
2005-03-31 23:23                                                   ` [PATCH] i2c: add adt7461 chip support to lm90 driver's Kconfig entry Greg KH
2005-03-31 23:23                                                     ` [PATCH] I2C: Fix broken force parameter handling Greg KH
2005-03-31 23:23                                                       ` [PATCH] I2C: Fix indentation of lm87 driver Greg KH
2005-03-31 23:23                                                         ` [PATCH] I2C: Drop useless w83781d RT feature Greg KH
2005-03-31 23:23                                                           ` [PATCH] i2c: i2c-mv64xxx - set adapter owner and class fields Greg KH
2005-04-07  9:45                     ` [PATCH] i2c: new driver for ds1337 RTC Ladislav Michl
2005-04-07  9:59                       ` Jean Delvare
2005-04-07 11:16                         ` Ladislav Michl
2005-04-07 13:07                           ` Jean Delvare
2005-04-07 14:28                             ` Ladislav Michl
2005-04-07 21:18                               ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-04-07 23:17                                 ` [PATCH] ds1337 1/4 Ladislav Michl
2005-04-07 23:36                                   ` Greg KH
2005-04-08 13:00                                     ` Ladislav Michl
2005-04-08 16:31                                       ` James Chapman
2005-05-02 20:41                                       ` Greg KH
2005-04-08  8:49                                   ` Jean Delvare
2005-04-07 23:18                                 ` [PATCH] ds1337 2/4 Ladislav Michl
2005-04-08  8:51                                   ` Jean Delvare
2005-04-08 13:02                                     ` Ladislav Michl
2005-05-02 20:41                                       ` Greg KH
2005-04-07 23:18                                 ` [PATCH] ds1337 3/4 Ladislav Michl
2005-04-08 10:08                                   ` Jean Delvare
2005-04-08 13:06                                     ` Ladislav Michl
2005-05-02 20:41                                       ` Greg KH
2005-05-04  6:13                                         ` [PATCH] ds1337 1/3 Ladislav Michl
2005-05-04  8:41                                           ` Jean Delvare
2005-05-04  6:13                                         ` [PATCH] ds1337 2/3 Ladislav Michl
2005-05-04  9:44                                           ` Jean Delvare
2005-05-04  6:14                                         ` [PATCH] ds1337 3/3 Ladislav Michl
2005-05-04 10:07                                           ` Jean Delvare
2005-05-10 12:08                                             ` [PATCH] ds1337 driver works also with ds1339 chip Ladislav Michl
2005-05-10 12:40                                               ` Jean Delvare
2005-05-10 12:48                                               ` Russell King
     [not found]                                           ` <1DTwF8-18P-00@press.kroah.org>
     [not found]                                             ` <20050508204021.627f9cd1.khali@linux-fr.org>
     [not found]                                               ` <427E6E21.60001@katalix.com>
     [not found]                                                 ` <20050508222351.08bfe2e1.khali@linux-fr.org>
2005-05-10 12:18                                                   ` [PATCH] ds1337: export ds1337_do_command Ladislav Michl
2005-05-10 12:51                                                     ` Jean Delvare
2005-05-10 17:55                                                     ` Greg KH
2005-05-10 18:36                                                       ` Ladislav Michl
2005-05-10 20:30                                                         ` Greg KH
2005-05-11  8:32                                                       ` Ladislav Michl
2005-04-07 23:19                                 ` [PATCH] ds1337 4/4 Ladislav Michl
2005-04-08 11:08                                   ` Jean Delvare
2005-04-08 12:35                                     ` Ladislav Michl
2005-04-08 16:21                                       ` Jean Delvare
2005-04-08 17:44                                       ` James Chapman
2005-04-10 19:51                                         ` Ladislav Michl
2005-04-10 21:10                                           ` Jean Delvare
2005-04-12 18:10                                             ` James Chapman
2005-04-13 11:04                                               ` Ladislav Michl
2005-04-13 19:02                                                 ` James Chapman
2005-04-13 19:48                                                   ` Ladislav Michl
2005-04-07 21:29                               ` [PATCH] i2c: new driver for ds1337 RTC Jean Delvare
2005-04-07 23:16                                 ` Ladislav Michl

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