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Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 06:02:25 -0700
From: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To: Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>,
Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>,
Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@...log.com>,
Jonathan Cameron <jic23@....ac.uk>,
uclinux-dist-devel@...ckfin.uclinux.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Blackfin: bf537: rename "CONFIG_ADT75"
On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 02:59:43PM +0200, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-04-04 at 05:07 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 01:40:03PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > > This breakage is telling us something about the weird approach taken in
> > > this file, methinks.
> > >
> > Yes, they have persistent problems with renamed or moved drivers. I somewhat
> > understood the need for SPI chips, but even there it seemed to me there should
> > be a better solution.
>
> The output of the (local) scripts I use mention about a dozen more
> (possible) problems in both Blackfin's stamp.c files. I'm roughly
> working my way back in git history, slowly, so those problems are
> probably older.
>
> Since I know from previous cleaning up efforts that the Blackfin people
> know they have non-working code (eg, code not actually buildable since
> it has no working Kconfig support) I do not give Blackfin much priority.
> But this patch (and the other two related to the v3.2 release) were
> obvious oversights that I could as well fix right away.
>
Makes me shiver ...
Guenter
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