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From:   Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Date:   Tue, 26 Apr 2022 08:45:32 +0000
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] hwmon: (nct6775) Convert to regmap, add i2c support
To:     Zev Weiss <zev@bewilderbeest.net>
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On Tue, 26 Apr 2022 at 08:29, Zev Weiss <zev@bewilderbeest.net> wrote:
>
> [Adding korg webmaster re: list infrastructure]
>
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 12:18:42AM PDT, Zev Weiss wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >This is v3 of my effort to add i2c support to the nct6775 hwmon
> >driver.
> >
> >Changes since v2 [0]:
> > ...
> > - Renamed drivers and Kconfig symbols to keep existing platform
> >   driver as "nct6775" (SENSORS_NCT6775) and the core module as
> >   "nct6775-core" (SENSORS_NCT6775_CORE) [Guenter]
>
> Unfortunately while this was a simple enough change to make (a few 'git
> mv' commands and a handful of actual text changes), it ballooned the
> size of the diff for patch 5 to the point that vger bounced it for
> exceeding the 100K message-size limit.  As far as I can tell it looks
> like it went through elsewhere, but does leave a bit of a gap in the
> public list archives -- please let me know if there's anything I should
> try in terms of re-sending it.  (The only combination of 'git
> format-patch' flags I've been able to find that gets it back down to
> approximately its previous size is '-B -D', which isn't so useful for
> actually applying.)

FWIW, I moderated it through to the openbmc list, which is on lore:

 https://lore.kernel.org/openbmc/YmetYjSKFs+WWwYz@hatter.bewilderbeest.net/

So the series can be fetched with eg. b4.

Aside from the mega-diff in patch 5 the changes look good to me (If
you can think of a way that makes patch 5 easier to review then let me
know).

Reviewed-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>

>
> I'm not sure how critical a limit that 100K is, or if it's something we
> might consider raising a bit?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Zev
>