Re: [PATCH] ARM: imx: introduce function imx_free_mx3_camera

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-05-24T20:05:04Z

On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 05:22:00PM +0200, Emil Goode wrote:
> Hello Uwe and Greg,
>
> > You'd do a better deed if you picked up
> > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1613364/focus=1635995
>
> Since there is nothing wrong with the last version of the patch in
> the above thread, I feel strange about picking it up and just splitting
> it into two patches. However it would be good to have it applied.
>
> I think the reason why the author didn't resend is that the object file
> and data structure layout information in the changelog depend on the
> changes to both .name and .dma_mask and by splitting the patch this
> information would not apply to any one of the resulting two patches.
>
> Perhaps keeping this information in the changelog is a good reason for
> applying the patch as it is?

If you read the thread, I explained why I didn't want to take the patch
as-is. Please feel free to break it up as asked for and I'll be glad to
consider it then.

thanks,

greg k-h