On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 08:35:03PM +0200, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 05:09:30PM -1000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 3:36 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Reason this could not wait is folks seem to want to keep extending the
> > > API,
> >
On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 08:17:08PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 09:04:38PM +0200, Arend Van Spriel wrote:
>
> > So why would drivers want the devm solution anyway. Once firmware is
> > loaded in the device it can be freed or do you expect device drivers to
> > keep the firmwa
On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 09:04:38PM +0200, Arend Van Spriel wrote:
> On 10-8-2016 20:32, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 08:35:03PM +0200, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 05:09:30PM -1000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >>> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 3:36 PM, Luis R.
On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 09:04:38PM +0200, Arend Van Spriel wrote:
> So why would drivers want the devm solution anyway. Once firmware is
> loaded in the device it can be freed or do you expect device drivers to
> keep the firmware/sysdata for suspend/resume scenario as some do because
> of firmwar
On 10-8-2016 20:32, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 08:35:03PM +0200, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 05:09:30PM -1000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 3:36 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez
>>> wrote:
Reason this could not wait is folks seem
On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 05:09:30PM -1000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 3:36 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> >
> > Reason this could not wait is folks seem to want to keep extending the API,
> > which is another reason for this, do we want to put an end to an unflexible
> > API no
On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 3:36 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>
> Reason this could not wait is folks seem to want to keep extending the API,
> which is another reason for this, do we want to put an end to an unflexible
> API now or should we wait ?
So I absolutely abhor "changes for changes sake".
On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 02:21:02PM -1000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So what is the advantage of this, since it needs to add more lines of code
> than it removes?
>
> It doesn't seem to be a simplification. Quite the reverse.
>
> Your diffstat of the whole automated conversion did that too.
A lot of
The Coccinelle sysdata patches were used to help with
this transition. The changes have been carefully manually
vetted for. With the conversion we modify the cases that do
not need the firmware to be kept so that the sysdata API
can release it for us. Using the new sysdata API also means
we can get
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