On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 12:58:51PM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote: > On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 04:27:30PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote: > > Software defined version number is not stable enough to be used > > in device type naming scheme. The patch changes it to use implicit > > soc name for spi device type definition. In this way, we can easily > > align the naming scheme with device tree binding, which comes later. > > > > Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <[email protected]> > > Cc: Uwe Kleine-König <[email protected]> > > Cc: Sascha Hauer <[email protected]> > > Cc: Grant Likely <[email protected]> > > --- > > arch/arm/mach-imx/clock-imx25.c | 7 +- > > arch/arm/mach-mx5/clock-mx51-mx53.c | 11 +- > > arch/arm/plat-mxc/devices/platform-spi_imx.c | 12 +- > > drivers/spi/Kconfig | 15 - > > drivers/spi/spi-imx.c | 423 > > ++++++++++++-------------- > > 5 files changed, 219 insertions(+), 249 deletions(-) > > Generally this patch is too big for me to get the warm feeling that > everything will just work. Renaming from spi_ver_xy to imx_xy is fine, > but should be done in smaller steps and where possible not across > subsystems. > Okay, I will split the patch into small pieces to win your warm feeling :)
> I increasingly see patches touching arch/ and drivers/ and I think > there's a high risk of merge conflicts upstream. This will not help > making Linus happy. > Yes, I increasingly run into the situation touching arch/ and drivers/ when working on dt migration because of the device renaming. May I have to your suggestion on how to separate drivers/ patch from arch/ one in orthogonal way, while keeping both trees working/bisectable? -- Regards, Shawn ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ spi-devel-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spi-devel-general
