RE: [PATCH] staging: fsl-mc: Upgraded MC flibs used in MC bus driver

From: Jose Rivera
Date: Tue Aug 25 2015 - 15:03:03 EST


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> From: Dan Carpenter [mailto:dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx]
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: fsl-mc: Upgraded MC flibs used in MC bus
> driver
>
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 11:52:40AM -0500, J. German Rivera wrote:
> > Since signatures of flib functions have changed, we had to change all
> > the corresponding calls in the MC bus driver
> >
>
> What does upgrade mean here? I feel like this is the kind of patch we
> reject without reading the patch because the description is too vague and
> you can tell from the diff stats that it is going to be too huge to
> review.
We will do some refactoring to make this easier to review.

Thanks,

german
>
> I looked at the first few lines and we are making a ball of changes.
> Copyright notices, adding function parameters, renaming functions. This
> needs to be explained a lot better and probably split into multiple
> patches.
>
> Btw, the trees are closed for the next 3-4 weeks until after 4.3-rc2 is
> released.
>
> regards,
> dan carpenter

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