Re: [PATCH] rtc: changed raw spi calls to register map calls

From: Raghavendra Chandra Ganiga
Date: Wed Aug 31 2016 - 12:51:28 EST




On Wednesday 31 August 2016 03:18 AM, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Please fix the subject, this patch is ds1347 specific.
>
Yes I will fix the subject

> On 31/08/2016 at 01:28:33 +0530, RAGHAVENDRA GANIGA wrote :
>> From 2ec82b6c9b99647e31d26c4c828dc7c51af8a633 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Raghavendra Ganiga <ravi23ganiga@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 01:13:30 +0530
>> Subject: [PATCH] rtc: changed raw spi calls to register map calls
>>
>> This patch changes calls of spi read write calls to register map
>> read and write calls
>>
>
> Can you explain why you need that change? I'm not sure what you gain
> from it (it makes the driver and the kernel bigger).
>
Regmaps abstract layer are a better way of accessing register through
spi interface rather than accessing directly through SPI layer

>> /* year in linux is from 1900 i.e in range of 100
>> - in rtc it is from 00 to 99 */
>> + * in rtc it is from 00 to 99
>> + */
>
> Unrelated change.
>
>
will have a seperate patch for this checkpatch.pl fix