[alsa-devel] [PATCH v2 01/18] mfd: madera: Add register definitions for Cirrus Logic Madera codecs

[Richard Fitzgerald]

On Thu, 2017-07-13 at 11:05 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 09:02:10AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> 
> > This patch has been rejected by Linus.
> 
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/7/579
> 
> Hrm, when I used to push the register definition patches I did elide all
> the obviously repeated register banks like the write sequencer one that
> Linus is calling out there.  I'm surprised by the "every single line"
> bit though...

Linux doesn't say what he wants us to do about it. I could manually
strip out a few more definitions but seriously, it makes the code a lot
harder to maintain if we can't grep it for use of registers and register
fields. They are big chips, they have a lot of stuff in the registers.