linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/11] mtd: nand: denali: first round of cleanups of Denali NAND driver

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Message-ID: <CAK7LNAQceXj1dspwFaRZgcKRxYZP4W+QAiOB_2-L9BeAz=ZS1g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 20 Nov 2016 01:15:05 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
To:     Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...e-electrons.com>
Cc:     linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>,
        David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@...el.com>,
        Jason Roberts <jason.e.roberts@...el.com>,
        Chuanxiao Dong <chuanxiao.dong@...el.com>,
        Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@...era.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@...il.com>,
        Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        Cyrille Pitchen <cyrille.pitchen@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] mtd: nand: denali: first round of cleanups of
 Denali NAND driver

Hi Boris,


2016-11-19 17:30 GMT+09:00 Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...e-electrons.com>:
> Hi Masahiro,
>
> On Wed,  9 Nov 2016 13:35:19 +0900
> Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com> wrote:
>
>> I am tackling on this driver to use it for my SoCs.
>> The difficulty is a bunch of platform specific stuff
>> (more specifically, Intel MRST specific) is hard-coded in this driver.
>>
>> I need lots of rework to utilize the driver for generic cases,
>> but at the same time, I found the driver code is really dirty,
>> lots of unused code, odd comments, etc.
>>
>> The first thing I needed to do was to clean up the code.
>> My work is still under the way, but I decided to drop this series
>> for now.  I hope this series is easy to review, so I guess
>> splitting into a small chunks is better than a one-shot patch bomb.
>
> Well, all I've seen coming from you so far are minor cleanups and
> cosmetic changes (including one introducing a regression).
> I'll apply this series, but please, next time, try to send the whole
> series, so that we can see the big picture, and not just random
> cleanups.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Boris

Right, this series alone is not useful at all.

I've been mostly stuck in some local works this week,
but hopefully I will find some time to complete the series next week.

If you want to see the big picture,
you can postpone this series until then.



-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada