Re: [PATCH] Adds support for Open Firmware in MAX730x GPIO Driver

[Linus Walleij]

On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 7:29 AM, leroy christophe
<christophe.leroy@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Le 01/03/2013 01:43, Linus Walleij a écrit :
>
>> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Christophe Leroy
>> <christophe.leroy@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> This patch allows the use of the MAX730x Driver on systems using
>>> the Open Firmware platform format
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Patrick Vasseur <patrick.vasseur@xxxxxx>
>>> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxx>
>>
>> (...)
>>>
>>>          /* bits_per_word cannot be configured in platform data */
>>> -       spi->bits_per_word = 16;
>>> +       if (spi->dev.platform_data)
>>> +               spi->bits_per_word = 16;
>>
>> What about just fixing so you *can* specify that instead?
>> The comment looks more like a FIXME to me.
>
> Euh, ok, why not. But here the purpose of my patch is to allow using this
> driver with of_platform in addition to platform.
> This FIXME is not mine, it was already existing in that driver.
> As of_platform can configure bits per word, the only thing I did is to add a
> test in order to not apply this FIXME on the of_platform case.
>
> Do you think my patch is not acceptable like this ?

No big deal.

I was just taking this opportunity to try to push out some driver
maintenance, that's what subsystem maintainers do you know...

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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