Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751209Ab0HUJOj (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Aug 2010 05:14:39 -0400 Received: from mail-qy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.216.174]:51553 "EHLO mail-qy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750875Ab0HUJOg (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Aug 2010 05:14:36 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=iPogEuhd7XY7t2PYeCQG94MEA2QXWgVl7NWbe+puvZoiuDS1Y9exvhWDk0M5m9ZCbW uKrXjrqPTqJxPwpVGn2jm/DX/icvUOSOJI9XT7T1e5IoPI37V7+mdxlpZ3CQS58hJl7X Hrq/BS8LUHa28H8kvqxlOgnCix9HefNCd2KX0= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20100820215206.GI3650@sortiz-mobl> References: <1282037077-29255-1-git-send-email-mattias.wallin@stericsson.com> <20100820215206.GI3650@sortiz-mobl> Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 11:14:35 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] MFD: Align ab8500 with the abx500 interface From: Linus Walleij To: Samuel Ortiz Cc: Mattias Wallin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1324 Lines: 34 2010/8/20 Samuel Ortiz : > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:24:37AM +0200, Mattias Wallin wrote: >> This patch makes the ab8500 mixed signal chip expose the same >> interface for register access as the ab3100, ab3550 and ab5500 chip. >> The ab8500_read() and ab8500_write() is removed and replaced with >> abx500_get_register_interruptible() and >> abx500_set_register_interruptible(). > Thanks for the patch, but I'd prefer to see it split into 3 separate ones, for > mfd, rtc and regulator. And then have the relevant maintaines cc'ed with those > patches. ... but that will have the side effect of making it non-bisectable will it not? If we change the interface of AB8500 to abx500.h in one patch that breaks the users and the order is not restored until all patches are applied. Isn't it better to just resend the same patch and Cc: the relevant subsystem maintainers on it? I'll sign it off and do this, I should've been in the submit path anyway. If you prefer to have it non-bisectable I'll post yet another version for that. Yours, Linus Walleij -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/