linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 2/7] firmware: sysfb: Add helpers to unregister a pdev and disable registration

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Date:   Wed, 11 May 2022 14:01:19 +0200
From:   Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@...hat.com>
To:     Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/7] firmware: sysfb: Add helpers to unregister a pdev
 and disable registration

Hello Thomas,

On 5/11/22 13:54, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Am 11.05.22 um 13:24 schrieb Javier Martinez Canillas:
>> These can be used by subsystems to unregister a platform device registered
>> by sysfb and also to disable future platform device registration in sysfb.
>>
> 
> I find it very hard to review these patches, as related things are put 
> into separate patches.
> 
> I suggest to put the sysfb_disable() stuff into patch 5 and the rest 
> into patch 4.
>

Ok, you then want in the same patch to have both the helper definition
and first usage.

Other subsystems ask you to do the opposite, to split the definition and
usage in separate patches. But I'm fine with merging those if you prefer.
 
> Best regards
> Thomas
> 
> 
-- 
Best regards,

Javier Martinez Canillas
Linux Engineering
Red Hat