linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v22 12/18] memory: pl353-smc: Let lower level controller drivers handle inits

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Date:   Wed, 9 Jun 2021 13:57:07 +0200
From:   Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
To:     Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...onical.com>
Cc:     Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>,
        Tudor Ambarus <Tudor.Ambarus@...rochip.com>,
        linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, Michal Simek <monstr@...str.eu>,
        Naga Sureshkumar Relli <nagasure@...inx.com>,
        Amit Kumar Mahapatra <akumarma@...inx.com>,
        Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        helmut.grohne@...enta.de, Srinivas Goud <sgoud@...inx.com>,
        Siva Durga Prasad Paladugu <sivadur@...inx.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v22 12/18] memory: pl353-smc: Let lower level controller
 drivers handle inits

Hi Krzysztof,

Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...onical.com> wrote on Wed, 9
Jun 2021 13:54:24 +0200:

> On 09/06/2021 10:01, Miquel Raynal wrote:
> > There is no point in having all these definitions at the SMC bus level,
> > these are extremely tight to the NAND controller driver implementation,
> > are not particularly generic, imply more boilerplate than needed, do
> > not really follow the device model by receiving no argument and some of
> > them are actually buggy.
> > 
> > Let's get rid of these right now as there is no current user and keep
> > this driver at a simple level: only the SMC bare initializations.
> > 
> > The NAND controller driver which I am going to introduce will take care
> > of redefining properly all these helpers and using them directly.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/memory/pl353-smc.c | 294 -------------------------------------
> >  include/linux/pl353-smc.h  |  30 ----
> >  2 files changed, 324 deletions(-)
> >  delete mode 100644 include/linux/pl353-smc.h
> >   
> 
> I see you remove here a bunch of code. Are the series still fully
> bisectable?

Absolutely, yes, because this code is currently unused.

Thanks,
Miquèl