linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 01/34] component: Introduce struct aggregate

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Date:   Wed, 5 Jan 2022 18:11:35 -0800
From:   Stephen Boyd <swboyd@...omium.org>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, freedreno@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
        Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Rob Clark <robdclark@...il.com>,
        Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk>,
        Saravana Kannan <saravanak@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 01/34] component: Introduce struct aggregate_device

Quoting Greg Kroah-Hartman (2021-12-21 01:28:10)
> On Thu, Dec 02, 2021 at 02:26:59PM -0800, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > Replace 'struct master' with 'struct aggregate_device' and then rename
> > 'master' to 'adev' everywhere in the code. While we're here, put a
> > struct device inside the aggregate device so that we can register it
> > with a bus_type in the next patch.
>
> Do not do a "while we are here" type change please.  Do the
> rename/replace first, and then make the other change.
>
> > The diff is large but that's because this is mostly a rename, where
> > sometimes 'master' is replaced with 'adev' and other times it is
> > replaced with 'parent' to indicate that the struct device that was being
> > used is actually the parent of the aggregate device and driver.
>
> The diff is 15 lines, how is that "large"?
>

Looks like I forgot to remove this chunk of commit text while splitting
the change earlier. Will fix it up now.