linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/8] mfd: Add Dialog DA906x core driver.

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Message-ID: <20120831171655.GC25575@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Date:	Fri, 31 Aug 2012 10:16:56 -0700
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To:	Krystian Garbaciak <krystian.garbaciak@...semi.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, rtc-linux@...glegroups.com,
	lm-sensors@...sensors.org, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-watchdog@...r.kernel.org, linux-leds@...r.kernel.org,
	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>,
	Liam Girdwood <lrg@...com>,
	Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@...ertech.it>,
	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	Ashish Jangam <ashish.jangam@...tcummins.com>,
	Andrew Jones <drjones@...hat.com>,
	Donggeun Kim <dg77.kim@...sung.com>,
	Philippe Rétornaz <philippe.retornaz@...l.ch>,
	Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@...ana.be>,
	Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@...onical.com>,
	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...ys.net>,
	Anthony Olech <anthony.olech@...semi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] mfd: Add Dialog DA906x core driver.

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 12:20:00PM +0100, Krystian Garbaciak wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 02:50:00PM +0100, Krystian Garbaciak wrote:

> > Your selection of people to CC here appears both large and random...

> I've added any maintainer for my modules from maintainer list.

You don't need to CC every single persojn on every single patch, and
quite a few of these people are clearly not active in development.

> > > +inline unsigned int da906x_to_range_reg(u16 reg)
> > > +{
> > > +	return reg + DA906X_MAPPING_BASE;
> > > +}

> > I've no real idea what this stuff is all about, it at least needs some
> > comments somewhere.  The fact that you're just adding a constant offset
> > to all registers is at best odd.

> I will comment it precisely for next version:

This still makes very little sense - this function appears to be
accomplishing very little.  You're adding a constant offset to every
single register address that gets used.  Why are we doing this
dynamically at runtime?
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