Re: [PATCH 0/8] fujitsu-laptop: use sparse keymaps for input event handling

[Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>]

On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 09:30:29AM +1030, Jonathan Woithe wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 08:16:18AM +0200, Micha?? K??pie?? wrote:
> > > On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 09:19:59PM +1030, Jonathan Woithe wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 10:32:16AM +0100, Micha?? K??pie?? wrote:
> > > > > This series simplifies handling of both brightness key and hotkey input
> > > > > events on Fujitsu laptops by making use of sparse keymaps.  This not
> > > > > only makes the driver shorter and, hopefully, cleaner, but also enables
> > > > > us to get rid of the keycodeX fields inside struct fujitsu_bl, which
> > > > > facilitates further cleanups.  Also, to simplify error handling, input
> > > > > devices registered by fujitsu-laptop are migrated to the devres API
> > > > > along the way.
> > > > > :
> > > I have completed my initial review of this patch series.  Aside from the
> > > single recommendation about patch 7/8 (posted separately) it looks good.
> > > I await your thoughts regarding patch 7/8 so we can finalise and sign off on
> > > this series.
> > 
> > Thanks for the review, Jonathan.  I agree with your remark regarding the
> > potentially confusing name of the variable holding the S64x0 keymap.
> > 
> > As in the past, we have at least two options: I can either post v2 of
> > all eight patches with three characters changed or you can provide your
> > Reviewed-by for v1, in which case I will kindly ask the maintainers to
> > run:
> > 
> >     sed -i 's|s6400|s64x0|;' drivers/platform/x86/fujitsu-laptop.c
> > 
> > after applying patch 7/8.  Given that this series does a bit more than
> > the cleanup series I posted previously, I sense it might be a good idea
> > to defer submitting v2 until after subsystem maintainers review v1, just
> > in case they find more issues.  If that happens, I will post v2 to avoid
> > confusion.  If not, then v1 can be applied with the one-liner above
> > taken into account (or I can post v2 anyway if that would be preferred
> > by Darren and Andy).
> > 
> > In other words, I am happy to follow whatever route you and the
> > subsystem maintainers suggest and I just want to avoid spamming the
> > mailing list.
> 
> I would be interested to hear what Darren and Andy's preference would be,
> and have no issue with following that.  My personal thought is that it's
> best to have a patch series v2 submitted with the keymap fix since I think
> that reduces the potential confusion now and in the future.  It makes it
> clear what exactly is being signed off on in any Reviewed-By tags.  This

No concerns applying the minor fix. It's very common to say "With XXX,
Reviewed-by: ...", so I that's fine.

> approach also removes the need for Darren or Andy to special case the
> eventual merge of the series (having to remember to do the replacement),
> which in turn reduces the chances of little errors creeping in.  However, if
> Darren and Andy are happy with an alternative then we can go with that.
> 
> As to whether v2 is held until Darren or Andy do their own review, I guess
> it makes sense in case they have other suggestions which are similarly
> trivial to implement.

Completing my review now...

> 
> Regards
>   jonathan
> 

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Darren Hart
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