[PATCH 00/10] pwm: Constistenly name pwm_chip variables "chip"

[Thierry Reding]

On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 09:10:33AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello Thierry,
> 
> On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 08:48:11AM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 10:56:13PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > > Uwe Kleine-König (10):
> > >   pwm: Use a consistent name for pwm_chip pointers in the core
> > >   pwm: atmel-hlcdc: Use consistent variable naming
> > >   pwm: bcm-kona: Consistenly name pwm_chip variables "chip"
> > >   pwm: crc: Consistenly name pwm_chip variables "chip"
> > >   pwm: cros-ec: Consistenly name pwm_chip variables "chip"
> > >   pwm: lp3943: Consistenly name pwm_chip variables "chip"
> > >   pwm: rockchip: Consistenly name pwm_chip variables "chip"
> > >   pwm: sifive: Consistenly name pwm_chip variables "chip"
> > >   pwm: sl28cpld: Consistenly name pwm_chip variables "chip"
> > >   staging: greybus: pwm: Consistenly name pwm_chip variables "chip"
> > 
> > This would've been much easier if it had been a single patch. Now I have
> > to either make you redo the whole series because you've misspelled PWM
> > or I have to go and update it myself in most of the above patches. Hint:
> > I'll do the latter.
> 
> I guess you want to do s/pwm driver/PWM driver/? Fine for me, thanks.
> 
> > There is really no reason to split this up into this many patches for
> > such a trivial change.
> 
> Well, that's a subjective view. There are reasons to prefer several
> small patches over one big one, too. A small patch can be indiviually
> reviewed, so the "Reviewed-by: Alex Elder ..." tag only goes to the one
> change that he actually looked at and if later a fix to the sifive
> driver is to be backported to stable, the stable maintainers just pick
> the sifive one instead of one big patch.

Backports becoming more complicated would actually be a good reason not
to do this in the first place, but we've already discussed that enough
elsewhere.

> Did you skip the sl28cpld patch, or squash the fixup I sent in the reply
> to Michael Walle?

I squashed the fixup.

Thierry
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