[PATCH 7/8] arm64: dts: meson: enable RTC for VIM1 meson-gxl-s905x-khadas-vim

Martin Blumenstingl martin.blumenstingl at googlemail.com
Fri Sep 25 03:31:11 EDT 2020


Hi Artem,

On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 5:31 AM Artem Lapkin <email2tema at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> enable RTC for VIM1 meson-gxl-s905x-khadas-vim
I think the commit message should always explain *why* the change is
necessary (what problem does it solve?)
for trivial changes the diff itself explains "what" is being changed

[...]
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/amlogic/meson-gxl-s905x-khadas-vim.dts b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/amlogic/meson-gxl-s905x-khadas-vim.dts
> index 8bcdffdf55d..354f21d4171 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/amlogic/meson-gxl-s905x-khadas-vim.dts
> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/amlogic/meson-gxl-s905x-khadas-vim.dts
> @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ &i2c_B {
>
>         rtc: rtc at 51 {
>                 /* has to be enabled manually when a battery is connected: */
why do we need to keep this comment?

same feedback applies to patch 8


Best regards,
Martin



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