On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 00:39 +0100, Ben Dooks wrote: > On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 07:34:23PM -0400, David Woodhouse wrote: > > On Sat, 2010-10-30 at 18:24 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > > > An explanation why this change is needed would be nice. > > > > Um, does it really need explaining? It's really poor form to keep driver > > state in global variables rather than per-instance, even if you *don't* > > actually have more than one device. > > I always like to fill it in, it makes it easier for lazy folks who can't > be bothered to read the patch itself.
The explanation fits in one line: "Handle multiple instances instead of keeping global state" I could try adding a paragraph explaining further that this patch will make the driver handle multiple instances of the device, by keeping its state per-device instead of in global variables. But that seems somewhat... redundant. -- David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre [email protected] Intel Corporation -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
