RE: [PATCH v1 6/6][ARM] new ARM SoC support: BCMRing

From: Leo (Hao) Chen
Date: Tue Jun 30 2009 - 19:55:34 EST





> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD [mailto:plagnioj@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 4:38 PM
> To: Alan Cox
> Cc: Leo (Hao) Chen; linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> Linux Kernel
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 6/6][ARM] new ARM SoC support: BCMRing
>
> On 00:20 Wed 01 Jul , Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:41:01 +0200
> > Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > On 16:30 Fri 26 Jun , Leo (Hao) Chen wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > The last patch. This big patch includes the minimal set
> of our CSP (chip support package), which is our OS
> independent chip supporting code and headers. All the codes
> are under arch/arm/mach-bcmring directory.
> > > This patch is unreadable
> > > you need
> > > 1) Respect the Linux coding Style
> >
> > For an OS independant set of chip support defines that
> usually makes no
> > sense
> here it's really unreadable
> IMHO as you will have to rewrite it to use the kernel API so
> it make sense

I am fixing the coding style errors reported by the checkpatch.pl script. So that they should be more readable to kernel developers.

> >
> > > 2) to split in small changeset
> >
> > For a new submission that generally doesn't make much sense
> either - not
> > for all the new files stuff.
> here you have mixed timer, dma, irq, clock, and other new
> files in the same
> patch, it's really hard to follow the patch. Split it a few
> will be easier
> to review IMHO
>

I am trying to split the patch into smaller patches with block level code.

> Best Regards,
> J.
>

Thanks for your input,

Leo Chen
Software Engineer
Broadcom Canada Inc.

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