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

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Message-ID: <20161119093011.17b53356@bbrezillon>
Date:   Sat, 19 Nov 2016 09:30:11 +0100
From:   Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...e-electrons.com>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.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@...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 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

> 
> 
> 
> Masahiro Yamada (11):
>   mtd: nand: denali: remove unneeded <linux/slab.h> includes
>   mtd: nand: denali: remove unused struct member denali_nand_info::idx
>   mtd: nand: denali: remove bogus comment about interrupt handler setup
>   mtd: nand: denali: remove detect_partition_feature()
>   mtd: nand: denali: remove "Spectra:" prefix from printk strings
>   mtd: nand: denali: remove unused struct member totalblks, blksperchip
>   mtd: nand: denali: use managed devm_irq_request()
>   mtd: nand: denali: return error code from devm_request_irq() on error
>   mtd: nand: denali: return error code from nand_scan_ident/tail on
>     error
>   mtd: nand: denali: remove unneeded parentheses
>   mtd: nand: denali: remove debug lines of __FILE__, __LINE__, __func__
> 
>  drivers/mtd/nand/denali.c     | 101 +++++++++---------------------------------
>  drivers/mtd/nand/denali.h     |  12 -----
>  drivers/mtd/nand/denali_dt.c  |   1 -
>  drivers/mtd/nand/denali_pci.c |   1 -
>  4 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 94 deletions(-)
>