linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] mfd: ntxec: Support for EC in Tolino Shine 2 HD

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Message-ID: <20210323174841.GD5490@sirena.org.uk>
Date:   Tue, 23 Mar 2021 17:48:41 +0000
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
Cc:     Andreas Kemnade <andreas@...nade.info>, j.neuschaefer@....net,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mfd: ntxec: Support for EC in Tolino Shine 2 HD

On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 05:20:02PM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Mar 2021, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 02:59:25PM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> > > On Thu, 11 Mar 2021, Mark Brown wrote:

> > > > If there were more users it'd be better to have this in the core so that
> > > > problems we can detect like cache stuff if that's used but if it's just
> > > > one broken device it's probably not worth it, this seems like something
> > > > you'd have to try to end up with and which is going to cause timeout
> > > > problems with a lot of I2C controllers which would tank performance
> > > > enough that people would notice.

> > > So Yoda, is this to go into the core, or stay where it is?

> > Well, nobody's sent me any patches.

> Code is still in the driver in v4.

> My question is; should these functions really live in the SS?

Perhaps we could avoid using that particular abbreviation.

Like I say it depends on how common this is - are we seeing other
devices with the same problem?

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