Brian Niebuhr <bnieb...@efjohnson.com> writes: > > > This patch is a significant overhaul of the davinci spi >> controller driver >> > that corrects multiple errors: >> > >> > - Eliminate a race condition that exists for slow SPI devices >> > - Fix DMA transfer length error >> > - Fix limitations preventing multiple SPI devices on the >> same controller >> > >> > Signed-off-by: Brian Niebuhr <bnieb...@efjohnson.com> >> >> The verbose description of the issues addressed from PATCH 0/2 should >> go here is well so it makes it into the permanent git history. > > I can certainly do that. > >> That being said, I think for the sake of reviewing, you're going to >> need to break this up into reviewable pieces, each having a verbose >> description of the issues being solved. >> >> There is also a mixture of fixes, enhancements, renames etc. These >> should be done as separate patches. >> >> I know that it's more work to break it up like this, but that's the >> only way to make a large change like this reviewable by others. > > I guess I was hoping that this could be reviewed as if it were a new > driver submission. I ended up more or less rewriting all of the > functional parts of the driver (txrx_bufs(), chipselect(), IRQs and DMA > callbacks), so it's very difficult to show this as a series of changes. > I do understand the problem from your perspective, though. My thought > was that if the TI folks were willing to look the driver over and they > gave their blessing, that you would look at it as if it were a > replacement driver and accept or deny it on that basis.
I'm OK with the approach of considering it as a brand new driver. The changelog made me think it was a bunch of fixes/enhancements and not a re-write. It should then be made more clear in the changelog that this is essentially a re-write, and why it is not done in a series of small changes. Whichever approach, this will need to worked out between you and the origial TI authors (Sandeep, Sudahkar) who will need to review/signoff this replacement. Kevin _______________________________________________ Davinci-linux-open-source mailing list Davinci-linux-open-source@linux.davincidsp.com http://linux.davincidsp.com/mailman/listinfo/davinci-linux-open-source
