linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/83] staging: comedi: rtd520: initial cleanup

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Message-ID: <4FFD5665.7040901@mev.co.uk>
Date:	Wed, 11 Jul 2012 11:33:09 +0100
From:	Ian Abbott <abbotti@....co.uk>
To:	Ian Abbott <ian.abbott@....co.uk>
CC:	H Hartley Sweeten <hartleys@...ionengravers.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"devel@...verdev.osuosl.org" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
	"gregkh@...uxfoundation.org" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/83] staging: comedi: rtd520: initial cleanup

On 2012-07-11 11:20, Ian Abbott wrote:
> On 2012-07-11 00:36, H Hartley Sweeten wrote:
> My main concern with this series of patches is they make it harder to
> determine what the register accesses actually do, mainly due to the
> removal of useful comments.  For example:
>
> -	RtdPacerStart(dev);	/* Start PACER */
> +	readl(devpriv->las0 + LAS0_PACER);
>
> And:
>
> -	RtdPacerStop(dev);	/* Stop PACER */
> +	writel(0, devpriv->las0 + LAS0_PACER);

It would be too much work to redo all those patches though.  I'll just 
make a patch to add back in the useful-looking comments.

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