linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH] staging: fsl-mc: Upgraded MC flibs used in MC bus driver

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Date:	Tue, 25 Aug 2015 18:48:21 +0000
From:	Jose Rivera <German.Rivera@...escale.com>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
CC:	"gregkh@...uxfoundation.org" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"arnd@...db.de" <arnd@...db.de>,
	"devel@...verdev.osuosl.org" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Stuart Yoder <stuart.yoder@...escale.com>,
	Katz Itai <itai.katz@...escale.com>,
	Scott Wood <scottwood@...escale.com>,
	"agraf@...e.de" <agraf@...e.de>,
	Hamciuc Bogdan <bhamciu1@...escale.com>,
	Marginean Alexandru <R89243@...escale.com>,
	"Sharma Bhupesh" <bhupesh.sharma@...escale.com>,
	Erez Nir <nir.erez@...escale.com>,
	Richard Schmitt <richard.schmitt@...escale.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] staging: fsl-mc: Upgraded MC flibs used in MC bus driver

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Carpenter [mailto:dan.carpenter@...cle.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2015 2:35 AM
> To: Rivera Jose-B46482
> Cc: gregkh@...uxfoundation.org; arnd@...db.de;
> devel@...verdev.osuosl.org; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; Yoder Stuart-
> B08248; katz Itai-RM05202; Wood Scott-B07421; agraf@...e.de; Hamciuc
> Bogdan-BHAMCIU1; Marginean Alexandru-R89243; Sharma Bhupesh-B45370; Erez
> Nir-RM30794; Schmitt Richard-B43082
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: fsl-mc: Upgraded MC flibs used in MC bus
> driver
> 
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 11:52:40AM -0500, J. German Rivera wrote:
> > Since signatures of flib functions have changed, we had to change all
> > the corresponding calls in the MC bus driver
> >
> 
> What does upgrade mean here?  I feel like this is the kind of patch we
> reject without reading the patch because the description is too vague and
> you can tell from the diff stats that it is going to be too huge to
> review.
We will do some refactoring to make this easier to review.

Thanks,

german
> 
> I looked at the first few lines and we are making a ball of changes.
> Copyright notices, adding function parameters, renaming functions.  This
> needs to be explained a lot better and probably split into multiple
> patches.
> 
> Btw, the trees are closed for the next 3-4 weeks until after 4.3-rc2 is
> released.
> 
> regards,
> dan carpenter

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