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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	patches@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpiolib: wm8994: Use irq_domain mappings for gpios
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 18:11:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120604171130.GB23408@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACRpkdZJPH__FzsUmKnQhTOtJ1EstJ8K5LzhTXGUO_VSzrjLew@mail.gmail.com>

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On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 07:08:43PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:

> I read some drivers/base/regmap code and I think I understand this stuff
> now, but seriously, it's quite hard to see the forest with all these trees,
> and regmap is actually one of the finest new things in recent kernels,
> so can could we create
> Documentation/driver-model/regmap.txt?

Of course, someone can!

> I think this document is needed... I would write it myself if I felt I
> understood the regmap overall concepts well enough, but I'm
> certain to get something wrong.

Well, there's one sure fire way to make sure you've got a good
understanding :)

More seriously I'm not sure I could readily tell what's non-obvious and
worth writing a document about.  Personally I always just read the
commit logs for Linux stuff, they're some of the best documentation I've
ever seen for software.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-04 17:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-03 12:40 [PATCH] gpiolib: wm8994: Use irq_domain mappings for gpios Mark Brown
2012-06-04 17:08 ` Linus Walleij
2012-06-04 17:11   ` Mark Brown [this message]
2012-06-04 17:30   ` Jonathan Corbet
2012-06-04 18:05     ` Mark Brown
2012-07-05 12:38 ` Linus Walleij

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