Re: [PATCH v1] treewide, serdev: change receive_buf() return type to size_t

[Francesco Dolcini <francesco@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Johan, Greg

On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 05:18:52PM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 02:55:59PM +0100, Francesco Dolcini wrote:
> > To me the change is correct, with that said probably this should have
> > been explicitly mentioned in the commit message or a separate
> > preparation patch.
> 
> It's a separate change and should not be hidden away in a tree-wide
> change that goes through a different maintainer.
> 
> Please drop this change from this patch and resubmit it separately to me
> if you want and I'll review when I have the time.

Fine, I agree.

I see those options (let me know if you see other options I have not
mentioned):

1. I add this change (taking into account also intel ice) as a separate
   patch in this series and you may just ack it and Greg could merge
   together with the serdev one.
2. I prepare an independent patch for the GNSS change and only once this
   is merged I'll send a rebased v2 of this one.
3. I update this patch without this GNSS API change, that mean I will
   have to cast away the signed type from a few GNSS drivers.

1 is my preferred option, 2 is fine, but it seems a little bit of overdoing,
3 I would avoid, we are doing this cleanup to be a little bit more
strongly typed and to prevent the kind of bugs that is the original trigger
for this patch.

What would you Greg and Johan prefer?


> And when doing tree-wide changes, please try to follow the style of the
> driver you are changing (e.g. do not introduce inconsistencies by
> changing to open parenthesis alignment of continuation lines in code
> that do not use it).

ack, sorry about that, looking back at the archive is seems a recent
pain point, also Jiri fell in this trap.

Francesco