Re: [PATCH v3 02/26] staging: most: integrate driver in kernel's device model

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On 18.10.2017 14:12, Greg KH wrote:
On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 10:46:09AM +0200, Christian Gromm wrote:
The following patch adapts the driver to use the device model by:

	- adopting the MOST bus_type
	- registering the core as a busdriver
	- removing private kobject/kset usage
	- removing private lists and structures to track registered modules
	  and making use of the device model API
	- removing prefix of modules
	- allowing adapter drivers (a.k.a. HDM) to register MOST devices
	- registering AIM modules as components with the core to build
	  the user space experience of the driver stack
	- using attribute groups to create the sysfs files
	- renaming variables to prevent collision with the introduced device
	  structs.

Hint, when you have to enumerate a list of different things you do in a
single patch, that is a _huge_ sign that the patch needs to be broken up
into smaller pieces, each piece only doing one logical thing.


This is a huge reconstruction of the driver architecture that
requires more than one thing be done at a time. Breaking this
up into tiny patches might render the sources broken, if you
don't apply the complete series. (Which is also a no-go, right?)

Since staging is meant to be the place to fix things up,
I thought I'd get away with this. Anyways, I'll try...

regards,
Chris
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