Re: [PATCH v3 07/15] mfd: menelaus: Limit the usage of the_menelaus

From: Lee Jones
Date: Wed Dec 11 2013 - 04:17:57 EST


On Tue, 10 Dec 2013, Felipe Balbi wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 08:57:01AM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> > > Pass a menelaus_chip pointer as argument to most functions so we can
> > > minimize the usage of the global the_menelaus pointer.
> > >
> > > Tested-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@xxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@xxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > drivers/mfd/menelaus.c | 265 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
> > > 1 file changed, 142 insertions(+), 123 deletions(-)
> >
> > How is this different from patch 6?
>
> have you read the patch ? patch 6 converts *only* enable/disable irq
> functions.

Well it actually converts menelaus_ack_irq() too, but that's not the
point I was making.

I can see that the 'code' is different, but the functionality of the
patch is the same i.e. converting functions to pass around the
menelaus_chip pointer for eradication of the_menelaus global pointer.

I'm not concerned about the 'lines changed' count. The change your
making is trivial, thus there is no requirement to split unnecessarily
over 5 patches. Please squash them into a single functionality patch.

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