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Date:	Mon, 21 Sep 2015 12:54:57 -0700
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	"Andrew F. Davis" <afd@...com>
Cc:	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>, Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@...il.com>,
	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>,
	Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] mfd: tps65912: Rewrite driver adding DT support and
 using regmap

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 02:46:50PM -0500, Andrew F. Davis wrote:
> On 09/21/2015 02:26 PM, Mark Brown wrote:

> >So split that interface change between the MFD and the function drivers
> >out into a separate change - you've got way more than just an interface
> >change in here (and you've not enumerated the various things that are
> >being changed in the changelog).

> I'm not really "changing" anything, this is a ground-up re-write. This
> fundamentally changes the way the MFD core and the function drivers interact,
> I would consider this a whole new driver that just happens to replace an older
> driver, not a bunch of incremental changes although I kept the same filenames.

So split out the deletion then add the new driver like you'd add any
other new driver.  If there were in tree users even that would be really
problematic but it does seem like we don't have any so perhaps people
will be OK with this.

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