Re: [PATCH 0/8] i2c: refactor core and break out blocks

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On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 10:20:51AM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> Yes, I wanted to do this for years now... The I2C core became a huge monolithic
> blob getting harder and harder to maintain. This series breaks out some
> functional parts into seperate files. This makes the code easier to handle
> because of the smaller chunks. It reduces ifdeffery because we can now handle
> compilation at the Makefile level. And it helps to spread responsibility, e.g.
> the ACPI maintainers do now have a dedicated file listed in MAINTAINERS.
> 
> This series was tested with a Renesas Lager board (R-Car H2 SoC). It booted
> normally and all device drivers for I2C clients seem to work normally. I wired
> two I2C busses together and used i2c-slave-eeprom to let one I2C IP core read
> out data from the other. That all worked fine. Buildbot is also happy, it found
> two issues of the first (non public) iteration. Thanks!
> 
> I did not test ACPI and hope for some assistance here :) I'd also be happy if
> people could check the includes of the newly created files, there might be
> missing some.
> 
> As a result, the main i2c-core file goes down from ~3600 lines to ~2000 lines.
> I think this is pretty helpful. I plan to apply this for v4.13 to not block
> other core changes. Let's see if we are there yet and the series is ready.
> Looking forward to comments.
> 
> A branch can be found here:
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux.git i2c/core-refactor
> 

So, I pushed this series out into -next to get broader testing.
Everything went well, so far. Might be famous last words... ;)

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