Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH v3] add new Cobalt LCD framebuffer driver

[Yoichi Y. <yoi...@tr...>]

On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:31:54 -0700
Andrew Morton <ak...@li...> wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:27:51 +0900
> Yoichi Yuasa <yoi...@tr...> wrote:
> 
> > I update cobalt_lcdfb driver.
> > 
> > v3
> > - fix read/write count boundary check.
> > - add <include/uaccess.h>.
> > - fix MODULE_AUTHOR.
> > 
> > v2
> > - add dpends MIPS_COBALT in Kconfig.
> > - add handling of signal_pending().
> > - check overflow of read/write count.
> > 
> > v1
> > - first release.
> 
> This driver has been merged into the subsystem tree for a long time and
> has been reviewed and has been perhaps tested by others.  Sending a
> complete new version of the entire thing is really quite an unfriendly
> act.  It basically invalidates all the review and test work which
> everyone else has done.
>
> This is why I will almost always turn replacement patches into
> incremental patches - so I can see what changed.  But that's only good
> for me.  Everyone else who is reading your new version won't bother
> doing that.
> 
> 
> So I generated the incremental patch and:
> 
> - The driver I have already includes linux/uaccess.h, so that change
>   was unneeded.
> 
> - The driver I have has already fixed the reject in
>   drivers/video/Makefile, so I get to fix it again, ho hum.
> 
> Here's what I ended up committing:
> 
>  drivers/video/Kconfig        |    2 +-
>  drivers/video/cobalt_lcdfb.c |   24 ++++++++++++++++++------
>  2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

OK.
If I update the driver to v4, I'll send the incremental patch.

Thanks a lot,

Yoichi