From: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>,
Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@linaro.org>,
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Jingoo Han <jingoohan1@gmail.com>,
Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>,
Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>,
NXP Linux Team <linux-imx@nxp.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] backlight: hx8357: prepare to conversion to gpiod API
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2022 11:04:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yz6oS/zdNIOEtWxI@maple.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACRpkdYecQPUd-evVpOpMLY1XUa87kP4i+E694QfTtDbEarJfQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Oct 06, 2022 at 11:03:15AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2022 at 10:35 PM Dmitry Torokhov
> <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Dmitry, could you fix this? Just patch away in gpiolib-of.c.
> >
> > Sure, I'll add a few quirks. I wonder what is the best way to merge
> > this? I can create a bunch of IBs to be pulled, or I can send quirks to
> > you/Bartosz and once they land send the patches to drivers...
>
> When I did it I was sufficiently convinced that I was the only one patching
> the quirks in gpiolib-of.c that merge window so I just included it as
> a hunk in the driver patch. If there will be some more patches to that
> file I guess some separate patch(es) for gpiolib-of.c is needed, maybe
> an immutable branch for those if it becomes a lot.
Are renames likely to be a common quirk on the road to libgpiod
conversion?
I admit I sort of expected it to be common enough that there would be
one rename quirk in the code supported by an alphabetized string table.
Such a table would certainly still provoke troublesome merges but ones
that are trivially resolved.
Daniel.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-06 10:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-27 22:32 [RFC/PATCH] backlight: hx8357: prepare to conversion to gpiod API Dmitry Torokhov
2022-09-28 11:00 ` Daniel Thompson
2022-09-28 18:33 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2022-10-03 13:32 ` Daniel Thompson
2022-10-04 9:02 ` Linus Walleij
2022-10-04 12:54 ` Daniel Thompson
2022-10-04 19:50 ` Linus Walleij
2022-10-04 20:35 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2022-10-06 9:03 ` Linus Walleij
2022-10-06 10:04 ` Daniel Thompson [this message]
2022-10-10 20:36 ` Linus Walleij
2022-10-12 20:34 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2022-10-13 12:43 ` Daniel Thompson
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