Re: [PATCH v4 0/8] Introduce intel_skl_int3472 module

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 5/26/21 1:03 AM, Daniel Scally wrote:

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>> 3/8 and 5/8 seem to be nice cleanups, but not really necessary. IMHO it
>> would be best to park these cleanups for later and for 3/8 add the following
>> where necessary for now:
>>
>> /* FIXME drop this once the I2C_DEV_NAME_FORMAT macro has been added to include/linux/i2c.h */
>> #ifndef I2C_DEV_NAME_FORMAT
>> #define I2C_DEV_NAME_FORMAT		"i2c-%s"
>> #endif
>>
>> This is not the prettiest but it reduces all the subsys cross-deps and things
>> like this have been done before for similar reasons.
>>
>> Likewise it would be good if you can add if (foo) as condition before any
>> clkdev_drop(foo) calls in this patch-set and then merge
>> 5/8 "clkdev: Make clkdev_drop() null aware" independently of this and then
>> once both are in Linux tree follow-up with a cleanup patch dropping the if (foo)
>> guards.
> 
> 
> This is fine by me if people are happy for it to go in like that; I'll
> just fix it up later.

I don't expect anyone to object against these 2 small fixes going in later,
if you can drop these 2 for v5 that would greatly help with untangling all the
subsys dependencies. Then I can just merge an ACPI + a gpiolib-acpi immutable
branch and then merge the big drivers/platform/x86 patch.

Regards,

Hans