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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Liam Girdwood <lrg@ti.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: extend the fixed voltage regulator to accept voltage
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 12:57:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120618115738.GI3974@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1206181212180.23884@axis700.grange>

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On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 12:13:58PM +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2012, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 11:52:13AM +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:

> Ok, I can add an explanation, why the name changes are necessary.

Please do split it into a separate patch.

> > I suspect we should be using kstrdup()...

> I wouldn't. It would add one more kmalloc(), which is avoided with my 
> approach, then it would make a memcpy(), which we also don't need, because 
> we have to print the id into the string.

This is because you've decided to go and select a particular set of
names for the supplies rather than letting people configure them which
again isn't 100% obvious...

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-18 11:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-18  8:19 Guennadi Liakhovetski
2012-06-18  9:41 ` Mark Brown
2012-06-18  9:52   ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2012-06-18 10:06     ` Mark Brown
2012-06-18 10:13       ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2012-06-18 11:57         ` Mark Brown [this message]
2012-06-18 15:57           ` [PATCH 1/2 v2] regulator: support multiple dummy fixed regulators Guennadi Liakhovetski
2012-06-18 15:57             ` [PATCH 2/2 v2] regulator: extend the fixed dummy voltage regulator to accept voltage Guennadi Liakhovetski
2012-06-18 16:20             ` [PATCH 1/2 v2] regulator: support multiple dummy fixed regulators Mark Brown
2012-06-18 16:30               ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2012-06-18 16:37                 ` Mark Brown
2012-06-18 17:13                   ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2012-06-18 17:28                     ` Mark Brown
2012-06-19 15:43                       ` [PATCH 1/2 v3] " Guennadi Liakhovetski
2012-06-19 15:44                         ` [PATCH 2/2 v3] regulator: extend the fixed dummy voltage regulator to accept voltage Guennadi Liakhovetski
2012-06-19 22:28                         ` [PATCH 1/2 v3] regulator: support multiple dummy fixed regulators Mark Brown

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