RE: [PATCH 00/11] staging: comedi: move comedi_fc functionality into core

[Hartley Sweeten <HartleyS@visionengravers.com>]

On Monday, September 15, 2014 5:46 AM, Ian Abbott wrote:
> The "comedi_fc" module contains a few functions for use by several
> low-level comedi drivers.  Since they are used by quite a few drivers,
> it seems useful to migrate their functionality to the core "comedi"
> module, renaming them in the process, while keeping the original
> function names in "drivers/comedi_fc.h" available for now.  This set of
> patches accomplishes that.
>
> The next stages after this will be to migrate the remaining inline
> functions from "drivers/comedi_fc.h" (possibly making them externally
> exported functions, although they are rather short), and then to update
> the low-level drivers to call the functions with the new names,
> eliminating the need to include "comedi_fc.h".  Then
> "drivers/comedi_fc.h" can be removed as well.
>
> Note that PATCH 10 has a couple of checkpatch warnings due to
> changing an existing block comment in non-standard block-comment style.
>
> PATCH 11 has a checkpatch warning to check whether MAINTAINERS needs
> updating.  It doesn't.
>
> PATCH 11 might conflict with some other patch series that haven't been
> committed yet.
>
> 01) staging: comedi: add comedi_bytes_per_scan()
> 02) staging: comedi: comedi_fc: use comedi_bytes_per_scan()
> 03) staging: comedi: add comedi_inc_scan_progress()
> 04) staging: comedi: comedi_fc: use comedi_inc_scan_progress()
> 05) staging: comedi: add comedi_handle_events()
> 06) staging: comedi: comedi_fc: cfc_write_array_to_buffer() data is
>     const
> 07) staging: comedi: add comedi_write_array_to_buffer()
> 08) staging: comedi: comedi_fc.h: use comedi_write_array_to_buffer()
> 09) staging: comedi: add comedi_read_array_from_buffer()
> 10) staging: comedi: migrate copyrights from "comedi_fc.c"
> 11) staging: comedi: remove comedi_fc module
>
>  drivers/staging/comedi/Kconfig             |  31 -------
>  drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_buf.c        |  66 +++++++++++++++
>  drivers/staging/comedi/comedidev.h         |  11 +++
>  drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c           |  95 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/Makefile    |   1 -
>  drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/comedi_fc.c | 132 -----------------------------
>  drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/comedi_fc.h |  40 ++++++---
>  7 files changed, 201 insertions(+), 175 deletions(-)

Ian,

Other than I think the comedi_fc.c functions should be migrated to
comedi_buf.c instead of drivers.c I have not problems with this.

And, patch 11 does have a conflict with your "... use dma_alloc_coherent..."
patches.

But,

Reviewed-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>