Re: [PATCH 13/22] ARM: ux500: Fork MSP platform registration forstep-by-step DT enablement

[Linus Walleij]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 1:06 AM, Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 01:13:49PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> > We've done this before and it worked well last time. Here we're
>> > duplicating a complex registration function to ease the process
>> > of enabling it for Device Tree. As there are quite a few steps
>> > taken during the registration process, it makes sense to break
>> > them up into more manageable chunks. This patch will aid us.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> I understand you have used this approach before so:
>> Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Does this comment take back your previous one:
>
> NOTE: it seems this patch set contains some churn. First you
> add in the forked device init, put in a big chunk of code and
> then in the *same* patch set delete it again. It's not like
> we're dying to see all the development history... can this
> be squashed down a bit?
>
> ... hence leave the patch-set as it is?

No. I just meant leave it like that for the devices outside of this
set.

If you're adding and then removing *all* of them in this set,
why add them in the first place?

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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