Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] rtc: rx6110: add i2c support

From: Alexandre Belloni
Date: Mon Nov 16 2020 - 12:36:23 EST


On 16/11/2020 16:43:43+0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 02:07:32PM +0100, Claudius Heine wrote:
> > The RX6110 also supports I2C, so this patch adds support for it to the
> > driver.
> >
> > This also renames the SPI specific functions and variables to include
> > `_spi_` in their names.
>
> As practice shows this is not the best approach. Can you ratqer split it to
> three modules: core, spi, i2c like it's done in many other cases (esp. IIO)?
>

Actually, I'm fine with having everytihn in the same file because
separating everything out means having 3 more files per rtc supporting
both busses in an already very crowded folder. And I don't think being
able to remove support for one or the other holds any actual value.

> In Kconfig you just leave same option with two additional ones like
>
> config ..._SPI
> tristate
> default SPI_MASTER
> depends on SPI_MASTER
>
> config ..._I2C
> tristate
> default I2C
> depends on I2C
>
> --
> With Best Regards,
> Andy Shevchenko
>
>

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