Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Oct 2022 11:04:59 +0100 | From | Daniel Thompson <> | Subject | Re: [RFC/PATCH] backlight: hx8357: prepare to conversion to gpiod API |
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On Thu, Oct 06, 2022 at 11:03:15AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote: > On Tue, Oct 4, 2022 at 10:35 PM Dmitry Torokhov > <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Dmitry, could you fix this? Just patch away in gpiolib-of.c. > > > > Sure, I'll add a few quirks. I wonder what is the best way to merge > > this? I can create a bunch of IBs to be pulled, or I can send quirks to > > you/Bartosz and once they land send the patches to drivers... > > When I did it I was sufficiently convinced that I was the only one patching > the quirks in gpiolib-of.c that merge window so I just included it as > a hunk in the driver patch. If there will be some more patches to that > file I guess some separate patch(es) for gpiolib-of.c is needed, maybe > an immutable branch for those if it becomes a lot.
Are renames likely to be a common quirk on the road to libgpiod conversion?
I admit I sort of expected it to be common enough that there would be one rename quirk in the code supported by an alphabetized string table. Such a table would certainly still provoke troublesome merges but ones that are trivially resolved.
Daniel.
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