[PATCH 09/26] mfd: ab8500-debugfs: Provide a means for a user subscribe to IRQs

Lee Jones lee.jones at linaro.org
Mon Feb 4 04:27:53 EST 2013


> > > > I'm going to have to put this patch-set in the bin. Pulling this
> > > > patch, causes lots of conflicts to the remaining patches in the
> > > > set.
> > > I bet removing this one causes a lot of conflicts. I'm not saying it should
> > > absolutely be removed, but I'm afraid once it's upstream no one is going to
> > > look at improving it.
> > 
> > This is really not the case. 
> I trust you here, but usually people get busy with other stuff after their
> patchset is upstreamed and never get back to me on the initial issues.
> 
> > I have every intention of fixing each and
> > every issue which are brought to my attention during the upstreaming
> > process of 'drivers/regulators', 'drivers/power' and 'drivers/mfd'.
> > 
> > All I'm doing is making a list of all the fixups and re-writes and
> > I'll address them on the completion of the push. Hence if you're happy
> > for this to go in with my promise of improvement, it would certainly
> > make this task a great deal easier for me.
> I'll take your words here. I'll apply this one once you adressed the other
> issues I commented about on this patchset.

Fixups complete, pull-request sent.

> > > And to be honest, having an IRQ handler from debugfs
> > > code looks weird to me. I know you can put all sort of crazyness into a
> > > debugfs entry, but still.
> > >  
> > > > I'll start again from scratch and find another way to sync the ab* MFD
> > > > drivers. I might even have to do it manually i.e. throw out all
> > > > commit history and upstream it as my own patches pulled in from diffs.
> > > I don't have any problems with that.
> > 
> > I'm sure you don't, but it's me that's doing all the hard work. ;)
> What's wrong with that ? ;)

Hmmm... :D

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