Re: [PATCH v3] mfd: syscon: Add arguments support for syscon reference

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Fri Jan 17 2020 - 09:54:30 EST


On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 2:27 PM Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 17 Jan 2020, Orson Zhai wrote:
>
> > There are a lot of similar global registers being used across multiple SoCs
> > from Unisoc. But most of these registers are assigned with different offset
> > for different SoCs. It is hard to handle all of them in an all-in-one
> > kernel image.
> >
> > Add a helper function to get regmap with arguments where we could put some
> > extra information such as the offset value.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Orson Zhai <orson.zhai@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Tested-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >
> > V3 Change:
> > Rebase on latest kernel v5.5-rc6 for Lee.
>
> Still not applying.
>
> I think it's a problem with the patch itself.
>
> It looks like all of the tabs have been replaced with spaces also.
>
> How are you sending the patch?
>
> Arnd,
>
> Are you able to apply this?

No, there appears to be some whitespace damage in the patch.

Arnd