[PATCH v5] mtd: nand: tango: import driver for tango chips

Richard Weinberger richard at nod.at
Tue Sep 20 00:57:56 PDT 2016


On 20.09.2016 09:39, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-09-20 at 09:24 +0200, Boris Brezillon wrote:
>>>>> +  writel_relaxed(chip->timing1,   nfc->reg_base + NFC_TIMING1);
>>>>> +  writel_relaxed(chip->timing2,   nfc->reg_base + NFC_TIMING2);
>>>>> +  writel_relaxed(chip->xfer_cfg,  nfc->reg_base + NFC_XFER_CFG);
>>>>> +  writel_relaxed(chip->pkt_0_cfg, nfc->reg_base + NFC_PKT_0_CFG);
>>>>> +  writel_relaxed(chip->pkt_n_cfg, nfc->reg_base + NFC_PKT_N_CFG);
>>>>> +  writel_relaxed(chip->bb_cfg,    nfc->reg_base + NFC_BB_CFG);  
>>>>  
>>>> Nit: can you avoid these weird alignments. Use a single space after the
>>>> comma.  
>>>  
>>> I was trying to highlight the fact that all these writes are
>>> within the reg_base area. I'll do as you ask, since you are
>>> the gatekeeper.
>>
>> Is that really less clear without the tabs?
> 
> Visually the aligned stuff looks nicer, and some kernel maintainers
> prefer this style. Other maintainers avoid it because it causes more
> churn. Indeed, imaging you need to add another field with longer name,
> or one of the existing fields is renamed - then you need to re-align,
> your patches become larger.

FWIW, I don't like tab aligned stuff for the simple fact because
git grep "foo =" does not find them.
Of course I could use regex magic but this does not make things easier. :-)

Thanks,
//richard



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