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SubjectRe: [RFC] staging: ste_rmi4: merge into the main kernel tree
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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