From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753967AbcCMNIb (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Mar 2016 09:08:31 -0400 Received: from hqemgate15.nvidia.com ([216.228.121.64]:5868 "EHLO hqemgate15.nvidia.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753229AbcCMNIW (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Mar 2016 09:08:22 -0400 X-PGP-Universal: processed; by hqnvupgp08.nvidia.com on Sun, 13 Mar 2016 06:07:38 -0700 Message-ID: <56E56327.9040908@nvidia.com> Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2016 18:25:03 +0530 From: Laxman Dewangan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Brown CC: , Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: fixed: Remove WARs for handling of_get_named_gpio() return References: <1457611967-29365-1-git-send-email-ldewangan@nvidia.com> <20160311043048.GR3898@sirena.org.uk> <56E27E5A.7040705@nvidia.com> <20160312055814.GU3898@sirena.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20160312055814.GU3898@sirena.org.uk> X-Originating-IP: [10.19.65.30] X-ClientProxiedBy: BGMAIL104.nvidia.com (10.25.59.13) To bgmail102.nvidia.com (10.25.59.11) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 12 March 2016 11:28 AM, Mark Brown wrote: > * PGP Signed by an unknown key > > On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 01:44:18PM +0530, Laxman Dewangan wrote: >> On Friday 11 March 2016 10:00 AM, Mark Brown 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? > What is wrong with "workaround"? Or just generally write the commit > message so someone outside nVidia can tell what the commit message > means. OK, will send the patch with term "workaround".