Re: [PATCH 2/3] mfd: tps65912: Rewrite driver adding DT support and using regmap

[Andrew F. Davis]

On 09/21/2015 02:26 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 11:42:13AM -0500, Andrew F. Davis wrote:
>
> > I know this is hard to review, and so I would like to apologize in advance, but
> > the regulator and GPIO changes depend on the new driver core, as do the i2c/spi
> > components. I really don't know how to split this up without leaving some part
> > in a non-working state in-between patches (which I've heard is also not OK).
>
> So split that interface change between the MFD and the function drivers
> out into a separate change - you've got way more than just an interface
> change in here (and you've not enumerated the various things that are
> being changed in the changelog).

I'm not really "changing" anything, this is a ground-up re-write. This
fundamentally changes the way the MFD core and the function drivers interact,
I would consider this a whole new driver that just happens to replace an older
driver, not a bunch of incremental changes although I kept the same filenames.
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