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From: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
To: Schspa Shi <schspa@gmail.com>
Cc: "brgl@bgdev.pl" <brgl@bgdev.pl>,
	"f.fainelli@gmail.com" <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpio: use raw spinlock for gpio chip shadowed data
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2022 14:38:24 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHp75VfcxACmuw5pwPgSB9ud06hWtHCUrMifU1rZJ+h+dwG+bg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMA88Tr6NvfEiPYnt0A60GiQKiiT6LT7X83GRku-4PDcG2EtoA@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Apr 18, 2022 at 6:07 AM Schspa Shi <schspa@gmail.com> wrote:
> Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> writes:

...

> >   drivers/gpio/gpio-mmio.c    | 22 +++++++++++-----------
> >   include/linux/gpio/driver.h |  2 +-
> >
> > You can’t do it for one driver only. As I told it will require too much of additional churn to make this to be series.
> >
>
> It seems I have misunderstood your "too much of additional churn". Can
> you explain it?
> The gpio-mmio.c and driver.h here are the basics of other gpio
> drivers. In my opinion, these two files
> belong to the basic code of gpio, and functions such as bgpio_init are
> declared in
> include/linux/gpio/driver.h and implemented in
> drivers/gpio/gpio-mmio.c. So there is no churn.

When you change the member of the data structure, you have to change
all its users. You can't change only one at a time because it will be
a (compile-time) bisectability issue.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko

  reply	other threads:[~2022-04-18 11:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-15 16:55 [PATCH] gpio: use raw spinlock for gpio chip shadowed data Schspa Shi
2022-04-16  8:30 ` Andy Shevchenko
2022-04-17 16:51   ` [PATCH v2 01/15] " Schspa Shi
2022-04-17 16:51     ` [PATCH v2 02/15] pinctrl: nuvoton: npcm7xx: use raw_spin_lock_irqsave for bgpio_lock Schspa Shi
2022-04-17 16:51     ` [PATCH v2 03/15] gpio: tb10x: use raw lock " Schspa Shi
2022-04-17 16:51     ` [PATCH v2 04/15] gpio: sifive: " Schspa Shi
2022-04-17 16:51     ` [PATCH v2 05/15] gpio: mlxbf2: " Schspa Shi
2022-04-17 16:51     ` [PATCH v2 06/15] gpio: menz127: " Schspa Shi
2022-04-17 16:52     ` [PATCH v2 07/15] gpio: loongson1: " Schspa Shi
2022-04-17 16:52     ` [PATCH v2 08/15] gpio: ixp4xx: " Schspa Shi
2022-04-17 16:52     ` [PATCH v2 09/15] gpio: idt3243x: " Schspa Shi
2022-04-17 16:52     ` [PATCH v2 10/15] gpio: hlwd: " Schspa Shi
2022-04-17 16:52     ` [PATCH v2 11/15] gpio: grgpio: " Schspa Shi
2022-04-17 16:52     ` [PATCH v2 12/15] gpio: dwapb: " Schspa Shi
2022-04-17 16:52     ` [PATCH v2 13/15] gpio: cadence: " Schspa Shi
2022-04-17 16:52     ` [PATCH v2 14/15] gpio: brcmstb: " Schspa Shi
2022-04-17 16:52     ` [PATCH v2 15/15] gpio: amdpt: " Schspa Shi
     [not found]     ` <CAHp75Vc8HwheQVOpcn_Lxk-bOOMLybr=m6OdO7mJ-vE9xywBLg@mail.gmail.com>
2022-04-18  3:07       ` [PATCH] gpio: use raw spinlock for gpio chip shadowed data Schspa Shi
2022-04-18 11:38         ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]
2022-04-18 11:39           ` Andy Shevchenko
2022-04-18 15:43             ` Schspa Shi
2022-04-18 19:01               ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2022-04-19  1:28                 ` [PATCH v3] " Schspa Shi
2022-04-19  8:22                   ` Andy Shevchenko
2022-04-19 21:57                   ` Linus Walleij
2022-04-19 22:30                   ` Doug Berger
2022-04-20  9:37                   ` Serge Semin
2022-04-25 10:15                   ` Bartosz Golaszewski

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