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Message-ID: <20170516124255.GA5440@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue, 16 May 2017 14:43:41 +0200
From:   Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>
To:     Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, arnd@...db.de,
        helmut.schaa@...glemail.com, kvalo@...eaurora.org,
        daniel@...rotopia.org, dev@...sin.me, pozega.tomislav@...il.com,
        vasilugin@...dex.ru, roman@...em.lv,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rt2x00: improve calling conventions for register
 accessors

On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 01:58:56PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-05-16 at 13:55 +0200, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> > 
> > In rt2x00 driver we use poor convention in other kind of registers
> > accessors like bbp, mac, eeprom. I dislike to changing only rfcsr
> > accessors and leaving others in the old way. And changing all
> > accessors would be massive and error prone change, which I'm not
> > prefer either.
> 
> That's a stupid argument, but for the sake of it - the conversion can
> easily be done with coccinelle/spatch without being "error prone".

Sure, but still I think it would be preferable to fix newly added
rt2800_bw_filter_calibration() function, instead of ancient rfcsr
accessors.

Stanislaw  

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