linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] serial: exar: adding CTI PCI/PCIe serial port support to 8250

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Message-ID: <2024041147-flogging-straining-910c@gregkh>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 17:55:54 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: parker@...est.io
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, Parker Newman <pnewman@...necttech.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] serial: exar: adding CTI PCI/PCIe serial port
 support to 8250_exar

On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 11:29:27AM -0400, parker@...est.io wrote:
> From: Parker Newman <pnewman@...necttech.com>
> 
> This patch adds support for most of Connect Tech's (CTI) PCI/PCIe
> serial cards to the 8250_exar driver.
> 
> Major changes:
>  - Added (optional) board_setup function called once during probe
>  - Added exar_get_nr_ports function
>  - Removed old Connect Tech setup functions
>  - Added new UART family based CTI setup functions
>  - Added PCI IDs entries for Exar XR17V25x and CTI FPGA based cards
>  - Added MPIO functions for configuring/setting a single MPIO
>  - Added support for reading from the Exar EEPROM

When you need to list the different things you did in a single patch,
that's a huge hint it needs to be broken up into smaller, easier to
review, pieces.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Parker Newman <pnewman@...necttech.com>
> ---
>  drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_exar.c | 1089 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 1019 insertions(+), 70 deletions(-)

Reviewing 1000 lines of changes at once that does different things,
isn't easy.  Please break this up into smaller,
one-logical-step-at-a-time patches.

thanks,

greg k-h