Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] tpm: tpm_tis_spi: Export functionality to other drivers

From: Stephen Boyd
Date: Mon Aug 12 2019 - 10:16:17 EST


Quoting Jarkko Sakkinen (2019-08-09 13:28:13)
> On Tue, 2019-08-06 at 15:07 -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > We want to use most of the code in this driver, except we want to modify
> > the flow control and idle behavior. Let's "libify" this driver so that
> > another driver can call the code in here and slightly tweak the
> > behavior.
>
> Neither "libifying" nor "slightly tweaking" gives an idea what the
> commit does. A great commit message should be in imperative form
> describe what it does and why in as plain english as possible.
>
> Often commit messages are seen just as a necessary bad and not much
> energy is spent on them but for a maitainer solid commit messages have
> an indispensable value.
>
> > + void (*pre_transfer)(struct tpm_tis_spi_phy *phy);
>
> Adding a new calback should be a commit of its own.
>

Ok. I will do that and focus the commit message.