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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@nvidia.com>
Cc: lgirdwood@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: fixed: Remove WARs for handling of_get_named_gpio() return
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 12:58:14 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160312055814.GU3898@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56E27E5A.7040705@nvidia.com>

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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.

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-13  8:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-10 12:12 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
2016-03-12  5:58     ` Mark Brown [this message]
2016-03-13 12:55       ` Laxman Dewangan

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