On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 04:02:33PM +0200, Christian Gromm wrote:
> On 18.10.2017 14:12, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 10:46:09AM +0200, Christian Gromm wrote:
> > > The following patch adapts the driver to use the device model by:
> > > 
> > >   - adopting the MOST bus_type
> > >   - registering the core as a busdriver
> > >   - removing private kobject/kset usage
> > >   - removing private lists and structures to track registered modules
> > >     and making use of the device model API
> > >   - removing prefix of modules
> > >   - allowing adapter drivers (a.k.a. HDM) to register MOST devices
> > >   - registering AIM modules as components with the core to build
> > >     the user space experience of the driver stack
> > >   - using attribute groups to create the sysfs files
> > >   - renaming variables to prevent collision with the introduced device
> > >     structs.
> > 
> > Hint, when you have to enumerate a list of different things you do in a
> > single patch, that is a _huge_ sign that the patch needs to be broken up
> > into smaller pieces, each piece only doing one logical thing.
> > 
> 
> This is a huge reconstruction of the driver architecture that
> requires more than one thing be done at a time. Breaking this
> up into tiny patches might render the sources broken, if you
> don't apply the complete series. (Which is also a no-go, right?)

Yeah.  It has to be git bisectable.  But just looking at patch 1, why
does it add the Documentation file?  How is that related to moving
things around?

regards,
dan carpenter

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