Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mfd: intel_quark_i2c_gpio: Use dmi_system_id table for retrieving frequency

[Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>]

On Mon, 22 May 2017, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 8:38 PM, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> wrote:
> > On 2017-05-22 19:36, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> >> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 8:34 PM, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> wrote:
> >>> On 2017-05-22 19:26, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> >>>> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 8:25 PM, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> wrote:
> >>>>> On 2017-05-22 19:20, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> >>>>>> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 8:18 PM, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>> On 2017-05-22 19:12, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> >>>>>>>> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 1:53 PM, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> wrote:
> 
> >>>>>> And since there is no difference to the frequency the name is enough.
> >>>>>> So, I wouldn't go with this series as is. See above.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Nope: Just like for the stmmac, we need to include the asset tags to
> >>>>> avoid matching variations of the devices which may carry the same board
> >>>>> name. While I will try to avoid that this happens, we are better safe
> >>>>> than sorry here.
> >>>>
> >>>> Do we have an issue right now?
> >>>> Yes / No
> >>>
> >>> Andy, we are trying to design a robust upstream driver here, no ad-hoc
> >>> BSP that will not survive the hardware anyway.
> >>
> >> You didn't answer my question...
> >>
> >> I do not see a good point to solve the issue that might happen in the future.
> >>
> >
> > While I do - that's why your question is misleading.
> >
> > Then let's leave the decision up to the maintainer.
> 
> Lee, just for your convenience I'm repeating myself here:
> 
> I do not like this series at all since it tries to solve non-existing
> issue in over-engineering way.
> 
> If you on opposite side I will be happy to help reviewing it.

New code looks cleaner and appears to use an already defined API.

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Lee Jones
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