linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 6/7] iio: accel: kionix-kx022a: Add a function to retrieve number of bytes in buffer

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Message-ID: <ZOx8rAFBXMylgNzm@smile.fi.intel.com>
Date:   Mon, 28 Aug 2023 13:53:32 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount@...il.com>
Cc:     Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>,
        Mehdi Djait <mehdi.djait.k@...il.com>,
        krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org, robh+dt@...nel.org,
        lars@...afoo.de, linux-iio@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 6/7] iio: accel: kionix-kx022a: Add a function to
 retrieve number of bytes in buffer

On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 09:24:25AM +0300, Matti Vaittinen wrote:
> On 8/27/23 21:09, Jonathan Cameron wrote:

...

> I think that people who work on a driver like this should guess what this is
> for.

_This_ is the result of what people always forgot to think about, i.e. newcomers.
What _if_ the newcomer starts with this code and already being puzzled enough on
what the heck the function does. With all ambiguity we rise the threshold for the
newcomers and make the kernel project not attractive to start with (besides the
C language which is already considered as mastodon among youngsters).

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko