Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Nov 2012 10:55:23 -0800 | From | Dmitry Torokhov <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] staging: ste_rmi4: merge into the main kernel tree |
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Hi Linus,
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 06:41:26PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 7:43 AM, Dmitry Torokhov > <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> wrote: > > > In this case you need to enumerate the benefits of this driver over > > unified driver and show why the unified driver can't be fixed. > > The benefit is that the ugliness in > drivers/staging/ste_rmi4/board-mop500-u8500uib-rmi4.c > can be avoided, as today we're unable to pass the compulsory > platform data in any sane way. I'm being told that this weak symbol > override actually does not really work... especially if there are more > than 1 I2C device on the bus :-P
I am confused as to why this would be a benefit of ste_rmi4 over full RMI4 implementation from Christopher's group?
I think what we really need is to accelerate work on the full driver so it is in mainline in 3.9ish.
Thanks.
-- Dmitry
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