linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 3/4] regulator: simplify twl4030 config

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Date:	Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:17:23 +0000
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To:	Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Uwe Kleine-König 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>, Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>,
	Vladimir Zapolskiy <vz@...ia.com>, Liam Girdwood <lrg@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/4] regulator: simplify twl4030 config

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 04:04:14AM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 3:53 AM, Mark Brown

> > Yes, of course.  Half the point in having subsystems and standard ways
> > of doing things is so that when we look at things we've got a reasonable
> > idea as to what they're supposed to be doing and people looking at the
> > code can figure out what's going on.   We don't want people to have to
> > play guessing games about this stuff.

> Of course... *ideally*, but we are not there right now.

We pretty much were, but this patch has changelog which says "I've got a
cool new way of doing things for this one driver!" which clearly applies
to other drivers.  I wouldn't mind a patch which does this for all MFDs
(though I really do think it should be applied to most subsystems) but
doing it for one driver isn't great.
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