Re: [PATCH v4 00/11] Add support for Kontron sl28cpld

[Lee Jones]

On Thu, 04 Jun 2020, Michael Walle wrote:

> The Kontron sl28cpld is a board management chip providing gpio, pwm, fan
> monitoring and an interrupt controller. For now this controller is used on
> the Kontron SMARC-sAL28 board. But because of its flexible nature, it
> might also be used on other boards in the future. The individual blocks
> (like gpio, pwm, etc) are kept intentionally small. The MFD core driver
> then instantiates different (or multiple of the same) blocks. It also
> provides the register layout so it might be updated in the future without a
> device tree change; and support other boards with a different layout or
> functionalities.
> 
> See also [1] for more information.
> 
> This is my first take of a MFD driver. I don't know whether the subsystem
> maintainers should only be CCed on the patches which affect the subsystem
> or on all patches for this series. I've chosen the latter so you can get a
> more complete picture.

You chose wisely. :)

> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-devicetree/0e3e8204ab992d75aa07fc36af7e4ab2@xxxxxxxx/
> 
> Changes since v3:
>  - use of_platform_populate() to populate internal devices using the
>    internal register offsets as unit-addresses
>  - because we don't use mfd_cells anymore, we cannot use IORESOURCE_REG,
>    but instead parse the reg property in each individual driver
>  - dropped the following patches because they were already merged:
>      gpiolib: Introduce gpiochip_irqchip_add_domain()
>      gpio: add a reusable generic gpio_chip using regmap
>  - dropped the following patches because they are no longer needed:
>      include/linux/ioport.h: add helper to define REG resource constructs
>      mfd: mfd-core: Don't overwrite the dma_mask of the child device
>      mfd: mfd-core: match device tree node against reg property
>  - rephrase commit messages, as suggested by Thomas Gleixner

It's great to have this changelog overview.

However it's equally, if not arguably more important to have a more
fine grained changelog in each of the patches, usually placed between
the '---' and the diff stat.

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Lee Jones [æçæ]
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