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From: Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@nvidia.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: <lgirdwood@gmail.com>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: fixed: Remove WARs for handling of_get_named_gpio() return
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 13:44:18 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56E27E5A.7040705@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160311043048.GR3898@sirena.org.uk>


On Friday 11 March 2016 10:00 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> * PGP Signed by an unknown key
>
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 05:42:46PM +0530, Laxman Dewangan wrote:
>
>> Remove the WAR implemented in fixed regulator to handle the
>> return of of_get_named_gpio().
> You need to explain what a WAR is, I suspect it's some nVidia internal
> term.
>
We used term "WAR" as workaround. This we used for special handling in 
SW for unusual stuff.
Probably "Hack" is the more appropriate word.

Should I use "hack" here?

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-11  8:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-10 12:12 [PATCH] regulator: fixed: Remove WARs for handling of_get_named_gpio() return Laxman Dewangan
2016-03-10 12:12 ` [PATCH] regulator: of: Use of_property_read_u32() for reading min/max Laxman Dewangan
2016-03-11  4:30 ` [PATCH] regulator: fixed: Remove WARs for handling of_get_named_gpio() return Mark Brown
2016-03-11  8:14   ` Laxman Dewangan [this message]
2016-03-12  5:58     ` Mark Brown
2016-03-13 12:55       ` Laxman Dewangan

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