[alsa-devel] [Device-drivers-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: ad74111: new codec driver

[Mike Frysinger]

On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 14:09, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 01:52:48PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 08:21, Mark Brown wrote:
>> > A few of your patches have this sort of additional change in them.
>> > While the cleanup is good it would be better to split it into a separate
>> > patch.  Seeing the unrelated change slows down review and it'll also
>> > create extra merge issues when applying or cherry picking the driver
>> > back to older kernels.
>>
>> in general i agree, but for moving literally one line i dont generally
>> worry about it
>
> It's a one line patch that totally changes the shape of the diff for
> that hunk.  As I said above this slows down review, it's jarring as one
> has to stop and reverse engineer from the change if was intentional and
> if it is sensible.  It could be some unrelated cleanup, it could be (and
> frequently is) context that got included in the diff by mistake.

i still disagree, but considering you have the luxury of not accepting
our patches, i guess it doesnt matter too much huh

>> > Again, drop the -codec unless this is part of a MFD.
>>
>> when i looked at the history of things, it seemed like it's the ASoC
>> maintainers sticking "-codec" on stuff.  so should i go through
>> existing drivers and revert that back ?
>
> Yes, they were included by mistake as a result of automated changes in
> the multi-component merges.

ok, should be easy to send out fixes for those
-mike