Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH] Fixed IIO_DEVICE_ATTR_NAMED API to take name as a string and added "" around names

[himanshi]

Okay. This way with each commit the version can compile and I will
be able to define the subsystem appropriately. Thank you for the
clarification Lars. 

On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 08:14:18PM +0200, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> On 09/12/2017 08:06 PM, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 12 Sep 2017, himanshi wrote:
> > 
> >> Thanks for the review Daniel! I will change the imperative mood for the commit
> >> message once the other changes are finalised too and as suggested by Julia,
> >> would try to make the description specific than general.
> >>
> >> I tried to think of adding subsystem to the commit subject but could not
> >> conclude any because of the files involved.
> >> I like the idea of splitting the patch into 2 as you suggested but I
> >> have a doubt that adding the new MACROS to different sysfs files can be put into 1
> >> patch with the subsystem you mentioned but changing the existing
> >> IIO_DEVICE_ATTR_NAMED to use IIO_ATTR_NAMED (sysfs file again) would be included
> >> in the second patch if I am not wrong. So would it be fine to keep the
> >> subsystem as iio for the second patch?
> > 
> > Indeed, the kernel has to compile after every commit.  Unless you change
> > the name of the macro, to allow the old and new versions to co-exist, it
> > seems hard to break up such a patch.
> 
> We can still split things into two parts. One patch introducing __ATTR_NAMED
> in the device driver core and then another patch making use of that macro in
> the IIO subsystem.