Re: [rtc-linux] RE: [PATCH V3 1/4] mfd: da9062: DA9062 MFD core driver

[Alexandre Belloni]

Hi,

On 11/06/2015 at 09:27:45 +0000, Opensource [Steve Twiss] wrote :
> 
> Thanks for replying so quickly.
> 
> > I'm still not particularly happy with this.  Can yo speak to your H/W
> > guys and get them to change their scripts to output sensible header
> > files?
> 
> Ah. Ok. 
> 
> For our side, the generated headers might not just be used for Linux. I've
> just discussed this with my colleagues and they will need it to remain.
> So I guess internally we will keep the headers like this, but as it enters
> my submission process I can change it for the Linux community.
>  
> > To be honest, it's probably not a blocker for acceptance, but if someone
> > writes a patch next week to change all of the (0x01 << X) lines to
> > start using the BIT() macro, I will accept it.  Better to influenced
> > your guys so you are not overly inconvenienced.
> 
> Yep: I will change this BIT() macro for the submissions in future.
> Depending on the next step, I will send a patch to this or update the submission
> if there are further comments on this patch set.
> 

Maybe a good solution would be to define BIT() at the top of your
generated header so that you simply have to remove it or replace it with
the proper include before mainline submission.

> > FWIW, when upstreaming code, the excuse "someone else wrote it", has
> > never been a good one to use on the lists.   Believe me, I've
> > tried. ;)
> 
> heh okay :)
> 
> Regards,
> Steve
> 
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