Re: [PATCH 0/4] fujitsu_init() cleanup

From: Jonathan Woithe
Date: Tue Jan 24 2017 - 06:55:57 EST


On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 02:19:15PM +0100, Micha?? K??pie?? wrote:
> > It might be worth glancing through these because the resulting renames in
> > particular definitely improved the clarity of the driver:
> >
> > Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009
> > From: Alan Jenkins
> > Subject: [PATCH 1/4] fujitsu-laptop: renames and cleanup
> > [PATCH 2/4] fujitsu-laptop: restructure initialisation
> > [PATCH 3/4] fujitsu-laptop: autodetect lcd interface on unknown models
> > [PATCH 4/4] fujitsu-laptop: simplify modalias (autoload)
>
> These subjects suggest that it makes little sense for me to duplicate
> Alan's work. I have a lot more cleanups on my todo list, but the more I
> change, the less sense Alan's patches will make. I guess the most
> reasonable course of action would be for you to go through Alan's series
> after all so that I will only need to send fixes for whatever he has
> missed. Feel free to suggest otherwise, though.

That certainly seems like a good way forward. I am now back from travel and
will try to get onto these patches as soon as possible. Hopefully I will
have something to report soon.

Regards
jonathan