Hello Linus, On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 8:20 PM, Javier Martinez Canillas > <javier.martinez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> So this is an RFC patch-set to add a virtual table to be used by >> GPIO chip controllers and consist of the following patches: > > Overall I like this. > > However I don't want to see any transitional phase. I prefer a BIG > fat patch converting everyone and its dog to the new vtable and > removing the old function pointers. This can be based on the HEAD > of my GPIO devel branch. > Ok, I was adding a commit per GPIO driver but the patch-set would have been very big (~200 patches). > It may be a good idea to use coccinelle for this refactoring in order > not to miss any users. > Agreed, I was manually searching for users by using grep but I agree that is much safer to use coccinelle for this. I don't have previous experience writing coccinelle semantics patches though so it may take more time than I thought but it is the perfect excuse to finally learn how to do it :-) Thanks a lot and best regards, Javier > Yours, > Linus Walleij > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-gpio" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
