linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 33/35] power: use dev_get

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Message-ID: <20130829104102.GS10783@sirena.org.uk>
Date:	Thu, 29 Aug 2013 11:41:02 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Anton Vorontsov <anton@...msg.org>
Cc:	'Greg Kroah-Hartman' <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
	Jingoo Han <jg1.han@...sung.com>,
	'David Woodhouse' <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 'Joe Perches' <joe@...ches.com>,
	'Andrew Morton' <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 33/35] power: use dev_get_platdata()

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 08:07:15PM -0700, Anton Vorontsov wrote:

> These changes not so much burden for me personally (it was actually easier
> for me to just apply the patch without all the arguing), but for those who
> actually do real bugfixes/features in the drivers: their local development
> trees will produce conflicts. Solving the trivial conflicts not a problem
> either, but irritating (especially realizing that you waste time resolving
> conflicts because of the "just cosmetic" crap).

> These days I don't code that much, but I was in that boat resolving
> "cosmetic" conflicts, and I did not like it. So I'm trying to solve the
> issue for drivers/power/ developers.

This sort of patche can be helpful when doing work over multiple drivers
- making the code more consistent means that it's much easier to pattern
match when looking over many different drivers.

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