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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>,
	"Felipe Balbi" <balbi@ti.com>,
	"Vladimir Zapolskiy" <vz@mleia.com>, "Liam Girdwood" <lrg@ti.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/4] regulator: simplify twl4030 config
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:17:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111220021722.GA8257@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMP44s3iSVEbghx9nGU-w9N+Bsdw040=UQtiw6RRyq021ssBxw@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 04:04:14AM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 3:53 AM, Mark Brown

> > Yes, of course.  Half the point in having subsystems and standard ways
> > of doing things is so that when we look at things we've got a reasonable
> > idea as to what they're supposed to be doing and people looking at the
> > code can figure out what's going on.   We don't want people to have to
> > play guessing games about this stuff.

> Of course... *ideally*, but we are not there right now.

We pretty much were, but this patch has changelog which says "I've got a
cool new way of doing things for this one driver!" which clearly applies
to other drivers.  I wouldn't mind a patch which does this for all MFDs
(though I really do think it should be applied to most subsystems) but
doing it for one driver isn't great.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-20  2:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-20  1:15 [PATCH v4 0/4] Simplifications on Kconfigs Felipe Contreras
2011-12-20  1:15 ` [PATCH v4 1/4] mfd: simplify twl4030_power config Felipe Contreras
2011-12-20  1:15 ` [PATCH v4 2/4] mfd: simplify twl4030_core config Felipe Contreras
2011-12-20  1:15 ` [PATCH v4 3/4] regulator: simplify twl4030 config Felipe Contreras
2011-12-20  1:19   ` Mark Brown
2011-12-20  1:36     ` Felipe Contreras
2011-12-20  1:53       ` Mark Brown
2011-12-20  2:04         ` Felipe Contreras
2011-12-20  2:17           ` Mark Brown [this message]
2011-12-20  1:25   ` Mark Brown
2011-12-20  1:43     ` Felipe Contreras
2011-12-20  1:15 ` [PATCH v4 4/4] usb: simplify hdrc configuration Felipe Contreras
2011-12-20 11:04   ` Felipe Balbi
2011-12-20 20:25     ` Felipe Contreras

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