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On 9/18/23 02:25, Matyas, Daniel wrote:
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Guenter Roeck <groeck7@gmail.com> On Behalf Of Guenter Roeck
>> Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2023 2:26 AM
>> To: Matyas, Daniel <Daniel.Matyas@analog.com>
>> Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.com>; Rob Herring
>> <robh+dt@kernel.org>; Krzysztof Kozlowski
>> <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@linaro.org>; Conor Dooley
>> <conor+dt@kernel.org>; Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>; linux-
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>> kernel@vger.kernel.org; linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/5] hwmon: max31827: Make code cleaner
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>> On 9/14/23 00:59, Daniel Matyas wrote:
>>> Now the wait time for one-shot is 140ms, instead of the old 141
>>> (removed the 1ms error).
>>>
>>
>> It was explicitly documented that the wait time was 140 + 1 milli-seconds,
>> presumably to be sure that the conversion is really complete.
>>
>> Why was this an error ? It was _documented_ that way.
>>
>> Guenter
>>
> 
> Well... actually I developed the driver initially and I wrote the documentation, so I know. I decided to remove the error milli-second, because I realized, it isn't really needed. There is no reference about it in the documentation of the chip, and frankly, I didn’t actually encounter any error which would need the 1 milli-second.
> 
> This way, the wait time is more exact and the correspondence with the chip documentation becomes quite straightforward.
> 

This is all fine, but it is yet another example of more than one logical
change in a single patch, and it has nothing to do with the subject. It
is not a cleanup, but a functional change.

Please split _all_ logical changes into separate patches.

Guenter