Re: [RFC PATCH 07/16] clk: hifiberry-dacpro: initial import

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On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 01:09:28PM -0500, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
> On 4/14/20 12:31 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 02:58:32PM -0500, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
> > > From: Daniel Matuschek <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > This patch imports the clock code from the Raspberry v5.5-y tree. The
> > > ASoC machine driver initially present in this patch was dropped. The
> > > comments are also dropped but all sign-offs are kept below. The patch
> > > authorship was modified with explicit permission from Daniel Matuschek
> > > to make sure it matches the Signed-off tag.
> > > 
> > > This patch generates a lot of checkpatch.pl warnings that are
> > > corrected in follow-up patches.
> > 
> > I guess it will be waste of time to review this part without squashing it first.
> 
> I wasn't sure if squashing was desired, so kept all my changes separate.

At the end, yes. It's a new contribution that can be at least cleaned before
hands to more-or-less acceptable point. With so many subtle issues it's not
good that we dump an ugly code outside of drivers/staging.

> There are some changes from the legacy clk to the clk_hw parts plus
> introduction of ACPI support that are easier to review if kept separate.

Yes, for review purposes it's okay.

You always can put your name as a SoB + Co-developed-by tag or give credits to
other people in the commit message differently (depending to amount of work
they do vs. yours).

> Maybe I should have squashed the cosmetic parts in patch8, and kept the
> functional changes as separate patches.

Use a common sense, you know your work better than me :-)
Just explain this in cover letter (like you do for this version).

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko





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