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From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date:   Fri, 17 Jan 2020 15:54:09 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mfd: syscon: Add arguments support for syscon reference
To:     Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Cc:     Orson Zhai <orson.zhai@unisoc.com>,
        "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        baolin.wang@unisoc.com, Chunyan Zhang <chunyan.zhang@unisoc.com>
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On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 2:27 PM Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 17 Jan 2020, Orson Zhai wrote:
>
> > There are a lot of similar global registers being used across multiple SoCs
> > from Unisoc. But most of these registers are assigned with different offset
> > for different SoCs. It is hard to handle all of them in an all-in-one
> > kernel image.
> >
> > Add a helper function to get regmap with arguments where we could put some
> > extra information such as the offset value.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Orson Zhai <orson.zhai@unisoc.com>
> > Tested-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@unisoc.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> > Acked-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
> > ---
> >
> > V3 Change:
> >  Rebase on latest kernel v5.5-rc6 for Lee.
>
> Still not applying.
>
> I think it's a problem with the patch itself.
>
> It looks like all of the tabs have been replaced with spaces also.
>
> How are you sending the patch?
>
> Arnd,
>
>   Are you able to apply this?

No, there appears to be some whitespace damage in the patch.

      Arnd