Re: [RESUBMIT PATCH v6 7/8] regulator: sky81452: Add compatible string for device binding

From: Gyungoh Yoo
Date: Wed Nov 05 2014 - 23:45:54 EST


On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 10:45:39PM +0100, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-10-31 at 16:44 +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 04:08:41PM +0900, gyungoh@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > From: Gyungoh Yoo <jack.yoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Gyungoh Yoo <jack.yoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > This doesn't apply against current code and depends on the MFD symbol
> > rename - can you please check what's going on here?
> >
> > It would make sense to split the Kconfig symbol rename into a separate
> > patch to ease merging,
>
> The relicensing (from GPL to GPL v2, thus dropping the "or later"
> provision) is odd too. The header still uses GPL v2 or later, doesn't
> it? Anyhow, that could be a separate patch too.

I will modify the licensing text and resubmit it.
Thank you for your comment.

>
> > it doesn't seem obviously related to the driver
> > change and should probably be in the same patch as the MFD symbol rename
> > for bisetion.
>
> I don't think there will be bisection problems (in mainline). Currently
> this driver depends on SKY81452. But that symbol doesn't exist. Only
> after both 1/8 and this patch will this driver become buildable, for the
> first time. So it's not that this driver was buildable, became
> unbuildable in 1/8 and buildable again in this patch.
>
> (I don't think it's much of a problem that the regulator driver got
> merged, in v3.18-rc1, before the mfd driver on which it depends.
> Avoiding that temporarily problem appears to be more trouble than it's
> worth.)
>
>
> Paul Bolle
>
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