Re: [PATCH V2 00/14] Cleanup before adding Scarlett Gen 3 support

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

On Sun, 20 Jun 2021 18:46:15 +0200,
Geoffrey D. Bennett wrote:
> 
> Hi Takashi,
> 
> Here is version 2 of a set of patches which is some cleanup of the
> Scarlett Gen 2 mixer driver in preparation for adding Scarlett Gen 3
> support.
> 
> One review comment I got (from Hin-Tak) was:
> 
> > 40+ patches is a lot, for modifying just one file. I would collapse
> > it all into one and break it up again to under 10, maybe, broadly
> > into "functionally-equivalent re-org", "small isolated bug fixes",
> > "additional functions, not yet used", "hooking up those new
> > functions", etc?
> 
> I'm not sure that I agree with that comment -- I tried to follow the
> Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst advice of "Separate each
> logical change into a separate patch" for easy review of the
> individual pieces, but perhaps I went too far in that direction?
> 
> Please let me know if I should combine some of these patches together.

The split is fine as long as it's done logically, so I took as is.

But, one thing that can be improved at the next time is to sort out
fix patches.  e.g. you had patches for fixing the mixer field type
(int vs enum) and a patch to correct the locking; those are rather
independent from the cleanup series and should be applied for the
stable backports, too.  I didn't add stable at this time because I
wasn't sure whether applicable and that's no severe issue, but the
process can be better.

Note that the merge window may be closed in this week, so if you want
the stuff to be merged, please submit now.


thanks,

Takashi