Re: [RESEND][PATCH v3 1/2] serial: 8250: Fold EndRun device support into OxSemi Tornado code
From: Maciej W. Rozycki
Date: Thu Apr 21 2022 - 17:38:19 EST
On Wed, 20 Apr 2022, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > As per the top of this file, this should not be needed here as you are
> > > only using it in one file. Please leave it as-is.
> >
> > I find this requirement silly, but here it's not the place to discuss it,
>
> You have not had to deal with merge issues in this file before. Think
> about every single PCI driver author updating this single file. That
> just does not work at the scale we run at, sorry. I put this rule into
> place 15+ years ago for that reason.
Fair enough, I missed this practical aspect. Thanks for straightening me
out.
Maciej