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* [PATCH v10 00/12] Convert PWM period and duty cycle to u64
@ 2020-03-19 20:50 Guru Das Srinagesh
  2020-03-19 20:50 ` [PATCH v10 01/12] drm/i915: Use 64-bit division macro Guru Das Srinagesh
                   ` (2 more replies)
  0 siblings, 3 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Guru Das Srinagesh @ 2020-03-19 20:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-pwm
  Cc: Kate Stewart, linux-fbdev, David Airlie, Wesley W. Terpstra,
	Michael Turquette, Kamil Debski, dri-devel, Liam Girdwood,
	Atish Patra, Thierry Reding, linux-riscv, Lee Jones, linux-clk,
	Alexandre Torgue, Guru Das Srinagesh, Daniel Thompson,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab, Axel Lin, Arnd Bergmann, Alexander Shiyan,
	Chen-Yu Tsai, NXP Linux Team, Mukesh Ojha, Gerald Baeza,
	intel-gfx, Guenter Roeck, linux-media, Jean Delvare,
	Maxime Coquelin, Uwe Kleine-König,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz, Sascha Hauer, Rodrigo Vivi,
	Mark Brown, Paul Walmsley, Subbaraman Narayanamurthy,
	Thomas Gleixner, Fabrice Gasnier, Ding Xiang,
	Pengutronix Kernel Team, Allison Randal, linux-hwmon,
	Anson Huang, Richard Fontana, Stephen Boyd, Jingoo Han,
	linux-kernel, Yash Shah, Palmer Dabbelt, Dan Carpenter,
	Shawn Guo

Because period and duty cycle are defined in the PWM framework structs as ints
with units of nanoseconds, the maximum time duration that can be set is limited
to ~2.147 seconds. Consequently, applications desiring to set greater time
periods via the PWM framework are not be able to do so - like, for instance,
causing an LED to blink at an interval of 5 seconds.

Redefining the period and duty cycle struct members in the core PWM framework
structs as u64 values will enable larger time durations to be set and solve
this problem. Such a change to the framework mandates that drivers using these
struct members (and corresponding helper functions) also be modified correctly
in order to prevent compilation errors.

This patch series introduces the changes to all the drivers first, followed by
the framework change at the very end so that when the latter is applied, all
the drivers are in good shape and there are no compilation errors.

Changes from v9:
  - Gathered the received "Reviewed-by: " tag
  - Added back the clk-pwm.c patch because kbuild test robot complained [3]
    and addressed received review comments.
  - clps711x: Addressed review comments.

Changes from v8:
  - Gathered all received "Acked-by: " and "Reviewed-by: " tags
  - Dropped patch to clk-pwm.c for reasons mentiond in [2]
  - Expanded audience of unreviewed patches

Changes from v7:
  - Changed commit messages of all patches to be brief and to the point.
  - Added explanation of change in cover letter.
  - Dropped change to pwm-sti.c as upon review it was unnecessary as struct
    pwm_capture is not being modified in the PWM core.

Changes from v6:
  - Split out the driver changes out into separate patches, one patch per file
    for ease of reviewing.

Changes from v5:
  - Dropped the conversion of struct pwm_capture to u64 for reasons mentioned
    in https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-pwm/msg11541.html

Changes from v4:
  - Split the patch into two: one for changes to the drivers, and the actual
    switch to u64 for ease of reverting should the need arise.
  - Re-examined the patch and made the following corrections:
      * intel_panel.c:
	DIV64_U64_ROUND_UP -> DIV_ROUND_UP_ULL (as only the numerator would be
	64-bit in this case).
      * pwm-sti.c:
	do_div -> div_u64 (do_div is optimized only for x86 architectures, and
	div_u64's comment block suggests to use this as much as possible).

Changes from v3:
  - Rebased to current tip of for-next.

Changes from v2:
  - Fixed %u -> %llu in a dev_dbg in pwm-stm32-lp.c, thanks to kbuild test robot
  - Added a couple of fixes to pwm-imx-tpm.c and pwm-sifive.c

Changes from v1:
  - Fixed compilation errors seen when compiling for different archs.

v1:
  - Reworked the change pushed upstream earlier [1] so as to not add an
    extension to an obsolete API. With this change, pwm_ops->apply() can be
    used to set pwm_state parameters as usual.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190916140048.GB7488@ulmo/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200312190859.GA19605@codeaurora.org/
[3] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-pwm/msg11906.html

Guru Das Srinagesh (12):
  drm/i915: Use 64-bit division macro
  hwmon: pwm-fan: Use 64-bit division macro
  ir-rx51: Use 64-bit division macro
  pwm: clps711x: Cast period to u32 before use as divisor
  pwm: pwm-imx-tpm: Use 64-bit division macro
  pwm: imx27: Use 64-bit division macro and function
  pwm: sifive: Use 64-bit division macro
  pwm: stm32-lp: Use %llu format specifier for period
  pwm: sun4i: Use 64-bit division function
  backlight: pwm_bl: Use 64-bit division function
  clk: pwm: Assign u64 divisor to unsigned int before use
  pwm: core: Convert period and duty cycle to u64

 drivers/clk/clk-pwm.c                      |  4 +++-
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_panel.c |  2 +-
 drivers/hwmon/pwm-fan.c                    |  2 +-
 drivers/media/rc/ir-rx51.c                 |  3 ++-
 drivers/pwm/core.c                         |  4 ++--
 drivers/pwm/pwm-clps711x.c                 |  5 ++++-
 drivers/pwm/pwm-imx-tpm.c                  |  2 +-
 drivers/pwm/pwm-imx27.c                    |  5 ++---
 drivers/pwm/pwm-sifive.c                   |  2 +-
 drivers/pwm/pwm-stm32-lp.c                 |  2 +-
 drivers/pwm/pwm-sun4i.c                    |  2 +-
 drivers/pwm/sysfs.c                        |  8 ++++----
 drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c           |  3 ++-
 include/linux/pwm.h                        | 12 ++++++------
 14 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Cc: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Cc: Jingoo Han <jingoohan1@gmail.com>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>
Cc: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@csie.org>
Cc: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Fabrice Gasnier <fabrice.gasnier@st.com>
Cc: Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@st.com>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Yash Shah <yash.shah@sifive.com>
Cc: Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com>
Cc: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
Cc: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Pengutronix Kernel Team <kernel@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>
Cc: NXP Linux Team <linux-imx@nxp.com>
Cc: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Pengutronix Kernel Team <kernel@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>
Cc: NXP Linux Team <linux-imx@nxp.com>
Cc: Alexander Shiyan <shc_work@mail.ru>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Cc: Richard Fontana <rfontana@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Kamil Debski <kamil@wypas.org>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.com>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: "Ville Syrjälä" <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: Michael Turquette <mturquette@baylibre.com>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-clk@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Mukesh Ojha <mojha@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Anson Huang <Anson.Huang@nxp.com>
Cc: Gerald Baeza <gerald.baeza@st.com>
Cc: Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@linaro.org>
Cc: Axel Lin <axel.lin@ingics.com>
Cc: Ding Xiang <dingxiang@cmss.chinamobile.com>
Cc: Wesley W. Terpstra <wesley@sifive.com>

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* [PATCH v10 01/12] drm/i915: Use 64-bit division macro
  2020-03-19 20:50 [PATCH v10 00/12] Convert PWM period and duty cycle to u64 Guru Das Srinagesh
@ 2020-03-19 20:50 ` Guru Das Srinagesh
  2020-03-19 20:50 ` [PATCH v10 10/12] backlight: pwm_bl: Use 64-bit division function Guru Das Srinagesh
  2020-03-21 11:47 ` [PATCH v10 00/12] Convert PWM period and duty cycle to u64 Dan Carpenter
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Guru Das Srinagesh @ 2020-03-19 20:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-pwm
  Cc: Guru Das Srinagesh, Uwe Kleine-König, David Airlie,
	intel-gfx, linux-kernel, Thierry Reding, dri-devel,
	Subbaraman Narayanamurthy

Since the PWM framework is switching struct pwm_state.duty_cycle's
datatype to u64, prepare for this transition by using DIV_ROUND_UP_ULL
to handle a 64-bit dividend.

Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: "Ville Syrjälä" <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org

Reviewed-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Guru Das Srinagesh <gurus@codeaurora.org>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_panel.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_panel.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_panel.c
index bc14e9c..843cac1 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_panel.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_panel.c
@@ -1868,7 +1868,7 @@ static int pwm_setup_backlight(struct intel_connector *connector,
 
 	panel->backlight.min = 0; /* 0% */
 	panel->backlight.max = 100; /* 100% */
-	panel->backlight.level = DIV_ROUND_UP(
+	panel->backlight.level = DIV_ROUND_UP_ULL(
 				 pwm_get_duty_cycle(panel->backlight.pwm) * 100,
 				 CRC_PMIC_PWM_PERIOD_NS);
 	panel->backlight.enabled = panel->backlight.level != 0;
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* [PATCH v10 10/12] backlight: pwm_bl: Use 64-bit division function
  2020-03-19 20:50 [PATCH v10 00/12] Convert PWM period and duty cycle to u64 Guru Das Srinagesh
  2020-03-19 20:50 ` [PATCH v10 01/12] drm/i915: Use 64-bit division macro Guru Das Srinagesh
@ 2020-03-19 20:50 ` Guru Das Srinagesh
  2020-03-21 11:47 ` [PATCH v10 00/12] Convert PWM period and duty cycle to u64 Dan Carpenter
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Guru Das Srinagesh @ 2020-03-19 20:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-pwm
  Cc: Guru Das Srinagesh, Daniel Thompson, Uwe Kleine-König,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz, Jingoo Han, linux-kernel, dri-devel,
	Thierry Reding, linux-fbdev, Subbaraman Narayanamurthy,
	Lee Jones

Since the PWM framework is switching struct pwm_state.period's datatype
to u64, prepare for this transition by using div_u64 to handle a 64-bit
dividend instead of a straight division operation.

Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Cc: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Cc: Jingoo Han <jingoohan1@gmail.com>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Cc: linux-pwm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org

Signed-off-by: Guru Das Srinagesh <gurus@codeaurora.org>
---
 drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c b/drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c
index efb4efc..3e5dbcf 100644
--- a/drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c
+++ b/drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c
@@ -625,7 +625,8 @@ static int pwm_backlight_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 		pb->scale = data->max_brightness;
 	}
 
-	pb->lth_brightness = data->lth_brightness * (state.period / pb->scale);
+	pb->lth_brightness = data->lth_brightness * (div_u64(state.period,
+				pb->scale));
 
 	props.type = BACKLIGHT_RAW;
 	props.max_brightness = data->max_brightness;
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* Re: [PATCH v10 00/12] Convert PWM period and duty cycle to u64
  2020-03-19 20:50 [PATCH v10 00/12] Convert PWM period and duty cycle to u64 Guru Das Srinagesh
  2020-03-19 20:50 ` [PATCH v10 01/12] drm/i915: Use 64-bit division macro Guru Das Srinagesh
  2020-03-19 20:50 ` [PATCH v10 10/12] backlight: pwm_bl: Use 64-bit division function Guru Das Srinagesh
@ 2020-03-21 11:47 ` Dan Carpenter
  2020-03-30 19:15   ` Guru Das Srinagesh
  2 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Dan Carpenter @ 2020-03-21 11:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Guru Das Srinagesh
  Cc: Kate Stewart, linux-fbdev, David Airlie, Wesley W. Terpstra,
	Michael Turquette, Kamil Debski, dri-devel, Liam Girdwood,
	Atish Patra, Thierry Reding, linux-riscv, Lee Jones, linux-clk,
	Alexandre Torgue, Daniel Thompson, Mauro Carvalho Chehab,
	Axel Lin, Arnd Bergmann, Alexander Shiyan, Chen-Yu Tsai,
	NXP Linux Team, Mukesh Ojha, Gerald Baeza, intel-gfx,
	Guenter Roeck, linux-media, linux-pwm, Jean Delvare,
	Maxime Coquelin, Uwe Kleine-König,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz, Sascha Hauer, Rodrigo Vivi,
	Mark Brown, Paul Walmsley, Subbaraman Narayanamurthy,
	Thomas Gleixner, Fabrice Gasnier, Ding Xiang,
	Pengutronix Kernel Team, Allison Randal, linux-hwmon,
	Anson Huang, Richard Fontana, Stephen Boyd, Jingoo Han,
	linux-kernel, Yash Shah, Palmer Dabbelt, Shawn Guo

This is a giant CC list.

There was one version where you CC'd me on patch 6/12 but after that you
just CC'd me on the cover page.  Something is messed up in your scripts
because Cc'ing me on just the cover is pointless.

regards,
dan carpenter

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* Re: [PATCH v10 00/12] Convert PWM period and duty cycle to u64
  2020-03-21 11:47 ` [PATCH v10 00/12] Convert PWM period and duty cycle to u64 Dan Carpenter
@ 2020-03-30 19:15   ` Guru Das Srinagesh
  2020-03-30 20:26     ` Daniel Thompson
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Guru Das Srinagesh @ 2020-03-30 19:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Dan Carpenter
  Cc: Kate Stewart, linux-fbdev, David Airlie, Wesley W. Terpstra,
	Michael Turquette, Kamil Debski, dri-devel, Liam Girdwood,
	Atish Patra, Thierry Reding, linux-riscv, Lee Jones, linux-clk,
	Alexandre Torgue, Daniel Thompson, Mauro Carvalho Chehab,
	Axel Lin, Arnd Bergmann, Alexander Shiyan, Chen-Yu Tsai,
	NXP Linux Team, Mukesh Ojha, Gerald Baeza, intel-gfx,
	Guenter Roeck, linux-media, linux-pwm, Jean Delvare,
	Maxime Coquelin, Uwe Kleine-König,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz, Sascha Hauer, Rodrigo Vivi,
	Mark Brown, Paul Walmsley, Subbaraman Narayanamurthy,
	Thomas Gleixner, Fabrice Gasnier, Ding Xiang,
	Pengutronix Kernel Team, Allison Randal, linux-hwmon,
	Chris Wilson, Anson Huang, Richard Fontana, Stephen Boyd,
	Jingoo Han, linux-kernel, Yash Shah, Palmer Dabbelt, Shawn Guo

On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 02:47:03PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> This is a giant CC list.

Yes, this is because I received feedback [1] on an earlier patchset
directing me to add the reviewers of patches to the cover letter as
well so that they get some context for the patch.

> There was one version where you CC'd me on patch 6/12 but after that you

Yes, that would be v9 [2].

> just CC'd me on the cover page.  Something is messed up in your scripts
> because Cc'ing me on just the cover is pointless.

Sorry about that - was initially adding reviewers only to the final
email being sent out instead of listing them in the commit message
directly, which I now realize is untenable and have subsequently fixed.

[1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-pwm/msg11735.html
[2] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-pwm/msg11852.html

Thank you.

Guru Das.
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* Re: [PATCH v10 00/12] Convert PWM period and duty cycle to u64
  2020-03-30 19:15   ` Guru Das Srinagesh
@ 2020-03-30 20:26     ` Daniel Thompson
  2020-03-30 21:00       ` Guru Das Srinagesh
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Daniel Thompson @ 2020-03-30 20:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Guru Das Srinagesh
  Cc: Kate Stewart, linux-fbdev, David Airlie, Wesley W. Terpstra,
	Michael Turquette, Kamil Debski, dri-devel, Liam Girdwood,
	Atish Patra, Thierry Reding, linux-riscv, Lee Jones, linux-clk,
	Alexandre Torgue, Mauro Carvalho Chehab, Axel Lin, Arnd Bergmann,
	Alexander Shiyan, Chen-Yu Tsai, NXP Linux Team, Mukesh Ojha,
	Gerald Baeza, intel-gfx, Dan Carpenter, linux-media, linux-pwm,
	Jean Delvare, Uwe Kleine-König, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz,
	Sascha Hauer, Rodrigo Vivi, Mark Brown, Paul Walmsley,
	Subbaraman Narayanamurthy, Thomas Gleixner, Fabrice Gasnier,
	Ding Xiang, Pengutronix Kernel Team, Allison Randal, linux-hwmon,
	Chris Wilson, Anson Huang, Richard Fontana, Stephen Boyd,
	Jingoo Han, linux-kernel, Yash Shah, Palmer Dabbelt,
	Guenter Roeck, Maxime Coquelin, Shawn Guo

On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 12:15:07PM -0700, Guru Das Srinagesh wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 02:47:03PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > This is a giant CC list.
> 
> Yes, this is because I received feedback [1] on an earlier patchset
> directing me to add the reviewers of patches to the cover letter as
> well so that they get some context for the patch.
> ...
> [1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-pwm/msg11735.html

Strictly speaking I only asked for backlight maintainers to be Cc:ed.
I was fairly careful to be specific since I'm aware there are a variety
of differing habits when putting together the Cc: list for covering
letters.

With the original patch header the purpose of the patch I was Cc:ed on
was impossible to determine without the covering letter.


Daniel.
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* Re: [PATCH v10 00/12] Convert PWM period and duty cycle to u64
  2020-03-30 20:26     ` Daniel Thompson
@ 2020-03-30 21:00       ` Guru Das Srinagesh
  2020-03-31 13:48         ` Daniel Thompson
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Guru Das Srinagesh @ 2020-03-30 21:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Daniel Thompson
  Cc: Kate Stewart, linux-fbdev, David Airlie, Wesley W. Terpstra,
	Michael Turquette, Kamil Debski, dri-devel, Liam Girdwood,
	Atish Patra, Thierry Reding, linux-riscv, Lee Jones, linux-clk,
	Alexandre Torgue, Mauro Carvalho Chehab, Axel Lin, Arnd Bergmann,
	Alexander Shiyan, Chen-Yu Tsai, NXP Linux Team, Mukesh Ojha,
	Gerald Baeza, intel-gfx, Dan Carpenter, linux-media, linux-pwm,
	Jean Delvare, Uwe Kleine-König, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz,
	Sascha Hauer, Rodrigo Vivi, Mark Brown, Paul Walmsley,
	Subbaraman Narayanamurthy, Thomas Gleixner, Fabrice Gasnier,
	Ding Xiang, Pengutronix Kernel Team, Allison Randal, linux-hwmon,
	Chris Wilson, Anson Huang, Richard Fontana, Stephen Boyd,
	Jingoo Han, linux-kernel, Yash Shah, Palmer Dabbelt,
	Guenter Roeck, Maxime Coquelin, Shawn Guo

On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 09:26:36PM +0100, Daniel Thompson wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 12:15:07PM -0700, Guru Das Srinagesh wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 02:47:03PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > > This is a giant CC list.
> > 
> > Yes, this is because I received feedback [1] on an earlier patchset
> > directing me to add the reviewers of patches to the cover letter as
> > well so that they get some context for the patch.
> > ...
> > [1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-pwm/msg11735.html
> 
> Strictly speaking I only asked for backlight maintainers to be Cc:ed.
> I was fairly careful to be specific since I'm aware there are a variety
> of differing habits when putting together the Cc: list for covering
> letters.
> 
> With the original patch header the purpose of the patch I was Cc:ed on
> was impossible to determine without the covering letter.

I suspect this might be the case for all the other reviewers as well -
that they also would appreciate context for the specific patch they are
being added to review.

I wasn't entirely sure what the convention was, so I applied your
suggestion to all the files. How do you suggest I handle this in my next
patchset? I fully agree that such a large CC list does look really
ungainly.

Thank you.

Guru Das.
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* Re: [PATCH v10 00/12] Convert PWM period and duty cycle to u64
  2020-03-30 21:00       ` Guru Das Srinagesh
@ 2020-03-31 13:48         ` Daniel Thompson
  2020-03-31 19:59           ` Guru Das Srinagesh
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Daniel Thompson @ 2020-03-31 13:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Guru Das Srinagesh
  Cc: Kate Stewart, linux-fbdev, David Airlie, Wesley W. Terpstra,
	Michael Turquette, Kamil Debski, dri-devel, Liam Girdwood,
	Atish Patra, Thierry Reding, linux-riscv, Lee Jones, linux-clk,
	Alexandre Torgue, Mauro Carvalho Chehab, Axel Lin, Arnd Bergmann,
	Alexander Shiyan, Chen-Yu Tsai, NXP Linux Team, Mukesh Ojha,
	Gerald Baeza, intel-gfx, Dan Carpenter, linux-media, linux-pwm,
	Jean Delvare, Uwe Kleine-König, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz,
	Sascha Hauer, Rodrigo Vivi, Mark Brown, Paul Walmsley,
	Subbaraman Narayanamurthy, Thomas Gleixner, Fabrice Gasnier,
	Ding Xiang, Pengutronix Kernel Team, Allison Randal, linux-hwmon,
	Chris Wilson, Anson Huang, Richard Fontana, Stephen Boyd,
	Jingoo Han, linux-kernel, Yash Shah, Palmer Dabbelt,
	Guenter Roeck, Maxime Coquelin, Shawn Guo

On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 02:00:12PM -0700, Guru Das Srinagesh wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 09:26:36PM +0100, Daniel Thompson wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 12:15:07PM -0700, Guru Das Srinagesh wrote:
> > > On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 02:47:03PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > > > This is a giant CC list.
> > > 
> > > Yes, this is because I received feedback [1] on an earlier patchset
> > > directing me to add the reviewers of patches to the cover letter as
> > > well so that they get some context for the patch.
> > > ...
> > > [1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-pwm/msg11735.html
> > 
> > Strictly speaking I only asked for backlight maintainers to be Cc:ed.
> > I was fairly careful to be specific since I'm aware there are a variety
> > of differing habits when putting together the Cc: list for covering
> > letters.
> > 
> > With the original patch header the purpose of the patch I was Cc:ed on
> > was impossible to determine without the covering letter.
> 
> I suspect this might be the case for all the other reviewers as well -
> that they also would appreciate context for the specific patch they are
> being added to review.
> 
> I wasn't entirely sure what the convention was, so I applied your
> suggestion to all the files. How do you suggest I handle this in my next
> patchset? I fully agree that such a large CC list does look really
> ungainly.

IHMO there should not be a mechanical convention. Instead your goal
needs to be how to make it as easy as possible to review your patches.

Think about it this way: Each person in the To: of a patch (and maybe
also Cc: depending on how you construct things) is a person you are
asking to review and comment on the patch. If that person will find it
easier to review the patch if they are included in the cover letter then
either they should be included or you should improve the patch
description of the patch itself (sometimes both).

Either way it is about optimizing the patchset for readability. More
people read them than write them.


Daniel.
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* Re: [PATCH v10 00/12] Convert PWM period and duty cycle to u64
  2020-03-31 13:48         ` Daniel Thompson
@ 2020-03-31 19:59           ` Guru Das Srinagesh
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Guru Das Srinagesh @ 2020-03-31 19:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Daniel Thompson
  Cc: Kate Stewart, linux-fbdev, David Airlie, Wesley W. Terpstra,
	Michael Turquette, Kamil Debski, dri-devel, Liam Girdwood,
	Atish Patra, Thierry Reding, linux-riscv, Lee Jones, linux-clk,
	Alexandre Torgue, Mauro Carvalho Chehab, Axel Lin, Arnd Bergmann,
	Alexander Shiyan, Chen-Yu Tsai, NXP Linux Team, Mukesh Ojha,
	Gerald Baeza, intel-gfx, Dan Carpenter, linux-media, linux-pwm,
	Jean Delvare, Uwe Kleine-König, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz,
	Sascha Hauer, Rodrigo Vivi, Mark Brown, Paul Walmsley,
	Subbaraman Narayanamurthy, Thomas Gleixner, Fabrice Gasnier,
	Ding Xiang, Pengutronix Kernel Team, Allison Randal, linux-hwmon,
	Chris Wilson, Anson Huang, Richard Fontana, Stephen Boyd,
	Jingoo Han, linux-kernel, Yash Shah, Palmer Dabbelt,
	Guenter Roeck, Maxime Coquelin, Shawn Guo

On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 02:48:04PM +0100, Daniel Thompson wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 02:00:12PM -0700, Guru Das Srinagesh wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 09:26:36PM +0100, Daniel Thompson wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 12:15:07PM -0700, Guru Das Srinagesh wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 02:47:03PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > > > > This is a giant CC list.
> > > > 
> > > > Yes, this is because I received feedback [1] on an earlier patchset
> > > > directing me to add the reviewers of patches to the cover letter as
> > > > well so that they get some context for the patch.
> > > > ...
> > > > [1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-pwm/msg11735.html
> > > 
> > > Strictly speaking I only asked for backlight maintainers to be Cc:ed.
> > > I was fairly careful to be specific since I'm aware there are a variety
> > > of differing habits when putting together the Cc: list for covering
> > > letters.
> > > 
> > > With the original patch header the purpose of the patch I was Cc:ed on
> > > was impossible to determine without the covering letter.
> > 
> > I suspect this might be the case for all the other reviewers as well -
> > that they also would appreciate context for the specific patch they are
> > being added to review.
> > 
> > I wasn't entirely sure what the convention was, so I applied your
> > suggestion to all the files. How do you suggest I handle this in my next
> > patchset? I fully agree that such a large CC list does look really
> > ungainly.
> 
> IHMO there should not be a mechanical convention. Instead your goal
> needs to be how to make it as easy as possible to review your patches.
> 
> Think about it this way: Each person in the To: of a patch (and maybe
> also Cc: depending on how you construct things) is a person you are
> asking to review and comment on the patch. If that person will find it
> easier to review the patch if they are included in the cover letter then
> either they should be included or you should improve the patch
> description of the patch itself (sometimes both).
> 
> Either way it is about optimizing the patchset for readability. More
> people read them than write them.

Thank you for the explanation! I shall keep your suggestions in mind
while sending out future patchsets.

Thank you.

Guru Das.
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