On Sun, 2017-11-12 at 22:04 +0100, Hans-Frieder Vogt wrote:
> Hi,

hi back.

> attached is the revised version of a driver that supports the serial OneWire 
> masters from iButtonLink(TM) in the w1 kernel driver. In order to be usable 
> it needs an updated userland tool (patch included in documentation file). The 
> kernel patch is against linux-next. Please try and comment.
> 
> v2 of the patch set changes the following:
> - based on review input from Evgeniy (thanks!), introduced a helper function 
> to re-use more code and generally improved the style of the code (couldn't 
> get rid of all problems checkpatch identified, but many of them)
> - introduced a version check to make sure the hardware belongs to the 
> supported devices
> - removed a dependency on little endian system
> - further testing revealed re-entry problems. The protection of critical code 
> areas has therefore been changed from local spinlocks to a more toplevel 
> mutex-based system to enforce serialisation. I have not run into any problems 
> with unexpected feedback from the link device since.

Please wrap your commit messages.
A maximum line length at 72 or so is preferred.

> Signed-off by: Hans-Frieder Vogt <hfv...@gmx.net>

Note the space between off and by.

checkpatch does correctly warn about this as
"missing Signed-off-by:"

Not much can be done to quiet checkpatch when
the patches contain an inter-diff.

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