[PATCH 00/28] at24: remove at24_platform_data

Hi Bart,

On Wednesday 08 August 2018 10:22 PM, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:

2018-08-08 18:44 GMT+02:00 Andrew Lunn [off-list ref]:

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On Wed, Aug 08, 2018 at 06:27:25PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:

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2018-08-08 17:55 GMT+02:00 Wolfram Sang [off-list ref]:

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On Wed, Aug 08, 2018 at 05:31:22PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:

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From: Bartosz Golaszewski <redacted>

This is a follow-up to the previously rejected series[1] which partially
removed the at24_platform_data structure. After further development and
taking reviews into account, this series finally removes that struct
completely but not without touching many different parts of the code
base.

Since I took over maintainership of the at24 driver I've been working
towards removing at24_platform_data in favor for device properties.

Wooha, nice work. I can't really comment on it but wondered how you want
to upstream it (after reviews)? Pull request of an immutable branch for
nvmem-tree sounds best to me. Then I could also pull it in if i2c needs
it. Probably same situation for arm-soc...

I initially wanted to merge small parts of it starting with v4.18, but
there were some voices against merging APIs without users. I'm not
sure how it should go in. There'll be a need for multiple immutable
branches most probably...

Hi Bartosz

What this series does is show all the different parts are now
available, and can be reviewed as a whole. Once that review is
completed, merging in parts then becomes possible.

It looks like you could probably merge the nvmem, mtd and net parts
independently via there maintainers for 4.20, since i don't think
there are any dependencies. The arm-soc changes in 4.21, and the
removal of the platform data in 4.22?

     Andrew

We need the first batch of SoC changes for the net part and then the
second batch depends on those net changes. Also: dragging the merge
for this over a year is a bit overkill.

Sekhar: I know you're usually provided with immutable branches from
framework maintainers for the SoC changes - is it ok for you to
provide the net maintainers with an immutable branch after applying
the first part of davinci board file changes?

Yeah, sure. I will be happy to do that to speed merging. Will take a
look at v2 you posted.

Thanks,
Sekhar