Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Aug 2013 11:41:02 +0100 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 33/35] power: use dev_get_platdata() |
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On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 08:07:15PM -0700, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> These changes not so much burden for me personally (it was actually easier > for me to just apply the patch without all the arguing), but for those who > actually do real bugfixes/features in the drivers: their local development > trees will produce conflicts. Solving the trivial conflicts not a problem > either, but irritating (especially realizing that you waste time resolving > conflicts because of the "just cosmetic" crap).
> These days I don't code that much, but I was in that boat resolving > "cosmetic" conflicts, and I did not like it. So I'm trying to solve the > issue for drivers/power/ developers.
This sort of patche can be helpful when doing work over multiple drivers - making the code more consistent means that it's much easier to pattern match when looking over many different drivers. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |