Re: [PATCH 33/35] power: use dev_get_platdata()

From: Mark Brown
Date: Thu Aug 29 2013 - 06:41:18 EST


On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 08:07:15PM -0700, Anton Vorontsov wrote:

> These changes not so much burden for me personally (it was actually easier
> for me to just apply the patch without all the arguing), but for those who
> actually do real bugfixes/features in the drivers: their local development
> trees will produce conflicts. Solving the trivial conflicts not a problem
> either, but irritating (especially realizing that you waste time resolving
> conflicts because of the "just cosmetic" crap).

> These days I don't code that much, but I was in that boat resolving
> "cosmetic" conflicts, and I did not like it. So I'm trying to solve the
> issue for drivers/power/ developers.

This sort of patche can be helpful when doing work over multiple drivers
- making the code more consistent means that it's much easier to pattern
match when looking over many different drivers.

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