linux-kernel - Re: [RESEND PATCH v7 1/1] platform: Add driver for RAVE Supervisory Processor

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Date:   Tue, 24 Oct 2017 11:40:38 -0700
From:   Andrey Smirnov <andrew.smirnov@...il.com>
To:     Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
Cc:     Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Chris Healy <cphealy@...il.com>,
        Lucas Stach <l.stach@...gutronix.de>,
        Nikita Yushchenko <nikita.yoush@...entembedded.com>,
        Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v7 1/1] platform: Add driver for RAVE Supervisory Processor

On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 8:13 AM, Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 11:30:54AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> > >  drivers/platform/Kconfig        |   2 +
>> > >  drivers/platform/Makefile       |   1 +
>> > >  drivers/platform/rave/Kconfig   |  26 ++
>> > >  drivers/platform/rave/Makefile  |   1 +
>> > >  drivers/platform/rave/rave-sp.c | 677 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> >
>> > First of all, why do these live in drivers/platform and why don't use
>> > the mfd subsystem to implement this driver (instead of rolling your own
>> > mfd-implementation)?
>>
>> Sending contributors around like this is quite uncool.
>
> Asking questions when things are done in unexpected ways is part of the
> review process, and the backstory here wasn't documented in the patch or
> cover letter.

Cover letter for this submission contains the link to v1 of the
patchset (marked as "[v1]"):

https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=149970632624803&w=2

whose cover letter captures why the driver was added to
"drivers/platform" to a degree and contains a link to original
submission:

https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=149677241805627&w=2

Granted it is not completely effortless to get to all of that, but I
don't think it is fair to say that all of that was not documented.

Andrey Smirnov