Re: [PATCH] Make all it87 drivers SMP safe.

[Natarajan Gurumoorthy]

Guenter,
      How would you partition it out? Are you suggesting that we do
the following:

Patch1:
   drivers/hwmon/Kconfig          |    1 +
   drivers/hwmon/it87.c           |   14 ++++++++++++-

Patch2:
   drivers/watchdog/Kconfig       |   12 +++++++++++
   drivers/watchdog/Makefile      |    1 +
   drivers/watchdog/it8712f_wdt.c |   10 ++++----
   drivers/watchdog/it87_lock.c   |   27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
   drivers/watchdog/it87_wdt.c    |   42 ++++++---------------------------------

Patch3:
   include/linux/it87_lock.h      |   28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Nat

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Guenter Roeck
<guenter.roeck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 07:03:35PM -0400, Natarajan Gurumoorthy wrote:
>> Guenter,
>>        This patch patch applies a common fix to all IT87 driver. Separating it
>> into 2 patches (one for drivers/hwmon and one for drivers/watchdog) does not
>> seem to be the right thing to do. I think having all the patches in one file
>> makes it easier to understand the rationale behind the patch. The
>> it87_io_lock.c and it87_io_lock.h files are in drivers/watchdog directory and
>> the lock defined in it is needed by the changes in drivers/hwmon/it87.c
>>
>
> I dislike the idea of a single patch crossing multiple subsystems. Maybe you'll
> find another maintainer accepting your change as a single patch, but I won't.
>
> That doesn't mean that the patches would have to be committed into multiple trees.
> That is for the subsystem maintainers to sort out, and a different issue.
>
> Thanks,
> Guenter
>



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Regards
Nat Gurumoorthy AB6SJ
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